The Easter Story

For He shall grow up before Him as a

tender plant,

And as a root out of dry ground.

He has no form or comeliness;

And when we see Him,

There is no beauty that we should

desire Him.

He is despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and acquainted 

with grief.

And we hid, as it were, our faces from

Him;

He was despised, and we did not

esteem Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our

transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was 

upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned, every one, to his own

way;

And the LORD has laid on Him the 

iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and He was 

afflicted,

Yet He opened not His mouth;

He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before its shearers is 

silent,

So He opened not His mouth.

He was taken from prison and from

judgement,

and who will declare His generation?

For He was cut off from the land of 

the living;

For the transgressions of My people

He was stricken.

And they made His grave with the

wicked-

But with the rich at His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;

He has put Him to grief. 

When You make His soul an offering

for sin,

He shall see His seed, He shall

prolong His days,

And the pleasure of the LORD shall

prosper in His hand.

He shall see the labor of His soul,

and be satisfied.

By His knowledge My righteous 

Servant shall justify many,

For He shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will 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 He was numbered with the 

transgressors,

And He bore the sin of many,

And made intercession for the

transgressors.

Isaiah 53