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Reader: “He was pierced for our rebellion”
Response: “crushed for our iniquity.”

Scripture: Isaiah 52:13-53:12

(Additional readings on your own: Psalm 22, Hebrews 10:16-25, John 18:1-19:42)

>See, my servant will prosper;
>he will be highly exalted.
>But many were amazed when they saw him.
>His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,
>and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.
>And he will startle many nations.
>Kings will stand speechless in his presence.
>For they will see what they had not been told;
>they will understand what they had not heard about.
>Who has believed our message?
>To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
>My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
>like a root in dry ground.
>There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
>nothing to attract us to him.
>He was despised and rejected—
>a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
>We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
>He was despised, and we did not care.
>Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
>it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
>And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
>a punishment for his own sins!
>But he was pierced for our rebellion,
>crushed for our sins.
>He was beaten so we could be whole.
>He was whipped so we could be healed.
>All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
>We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
>Yet the Lord laid on him
>the sins of us all.