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1Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has
2the arm of the LORD been revealed?
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For he grew up before him like a young plant,
3and like a root out of dry ground;
4he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
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5He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and
6we esteemed him not.
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7Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken,
8smitten by God, and afflicted.
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9But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
10and with his stripes we are healed.
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11All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way;
12and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
13yet he opened not his mouth;
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15lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
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By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation,
16who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
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And they made his grave with the wicked
17and with a rich man in his death, although
18he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.