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<div style="text-align:center;">Isaiah 53</div>
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<p>Who has believed our message<br />
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?<br />
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,<br />
and like a root out of dry ground.<br />
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,<br />
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.<br />
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,<br />
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.<br />
Like one from whom people hide their faces<br />
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.</p>
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<p>4 Surely he took up our pain<br />
and bore our suffering,<br />
yet we considered him punished by God,<br />
stricken by him, and afflicted.<br />
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,<br />
he was crushed for our iniquities;<br />
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,<br />
and by his wounds we are healed.<br />
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,<br />
each of us has turned to our own way;<br />
and the Lord has laid on him<br />
the iniquity of us all.</p>
<p>7 He was oppressed and afflicted,<br />
yet he did not open his mouth;<br />
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,<br />
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,<br />
so he did not open his mouth.<br />
8 By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.<br />
Yet who of his generation protested?<br />
For he was cut off from the land of the living;<br />
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b]<br />
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,<br />
and with the rich in his death,<br />
though he had done no violence,<br />
nor was any deceit in his mouth.</p>
<p>10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,<br />
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,<br />
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,<br />
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.<br />
11 After he has suffered,<br />
he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];<br />
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,<br />
and he will bear their iniquities.<br />
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]<br />
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]<br />
because he poured out his life unto death,<br />
and was numbered with the transgressors.<br />
For he bore the sin of many,<br />
and made intercession for the transgressors.</p>
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Lenten Meditation Day 10
