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Rh  But God commendeth his own love toward us,
 * In that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Isaiah liii WHO hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
 * For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:

He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
 * He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:

And as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
 * Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows;

Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
 * But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
 * All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way,

And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
 * Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;

Because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors:
 * Yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Psalm cli MY days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
 * But thou, O Lord, wilt abide for ever; and thy memorial name unto all generations.