Day 228 and 229: Isaiah 50-60, August 9th and 10th, 2023

The Gospel according to Isaiah

Isaiah 53

1 Who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2 He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,

and like a root out of dry ground.

He had no stately form or majesty to attract us,

no beauty that we should desire Him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.

Like one from whom men hide their faces,

He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

4 Surely He took on our infirmities

and carried our sorrows;

yet we considered Him stricken by God,

struck down and afflicted.

5 But He was pierced for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him,

and by His stripes we are healed.

6 We all like sheep have gone astray,

each one has turned to his own way;

and the Lord has laid upon Him

the iniquity of us all.