fra Biblica1Hvem troede på budskabet? Hvem blev Herrens magt åbenbaret for?2Herren lod ham spire frem som en ny plante, som et rodskud op af den udtørrede jord. Han var ikke noget flot syn, ingen særlig skønhed. Der var ikke noget ved hans udseende, som gjorde ham attraktiv.3Han blev hadet og forkastet, hans liv var fuldt af sorg og smerte. Vi så til den anden side, når han gik forbi, vi regnede ham ikke for noget.4Vi troede, at hans lidelser var Guds straf. Men det var vores sygdomme han tog på sig, vores lidelser han bar.5Han blev gennemboret for vores synder og lemlæstet for vores overtrædelser. Straffen ramte ham, for at vi kunne gå fri. Ved hans sår blev vi helbredt.6Vi var som får, der var faret vild, vi gik hver vores egen vej. Men Herren lod ham bære den straf, som vi skulle have haft.7Han blev pint og mishandlet, men var tavs som et lam, der føres til slagtning, som et får, der lader sig klippe uden at klynke.8Han blev ydmyget, dømt og ført bort. Efterkommere har han ingen af, for hans liv på jorden endte brat. Han tog straffen for folkets skyld.9Man ville begrave ham sammen med forbrydere, men han fik en gravplads blandt de rige, for han havde ikke gjort noget forkert og aldrig bedraget nogen.10Det var Herrens plan, at han skulle lide. Men når han har bragt det offer, som soner andres synd og skyld, vil han få talrige efterkommere og et langt liv, og Herrens plan skal lykkes gennem ham.11Når han ser, hvad der kommer ud af hans lidelse, glæder han sig og føler, at det var det hele værd. Herren siger: „Min retfærdige tjener vil få frikendt mange, fordi han har sonet deres synd.12Jeg vil belønne ham med ære og magt fordi han frivilligt gav sit liv. Han blev regnet som en synder, men han tog straffen for mange menneskers synd og gik i forbøn for de oprørske.”
Esajas 53
King James Version
1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt 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.11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.