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Isaiah chapter 53 verses,

versus four through six.

Surely he is born our griefs and carried our sorrows.

Yet we esteemed him stricken. our griefs and carried our sorrows.

Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

Upon him with the chastisement that brought us peace,

and with his wounds we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the

iniquity of us all. This is one of the most well-known passages in Isaiah, Isaiah

chapter 53, this servant song prophesying Jesus to come, the servant who would pay the price for our sins and I just want to lead us to pray almost word for word through these

three verses that may be familiar to you but I hope will land in a fresh way.

And you know there's times when, especially whenever we come across a familiar passage of

scripture, that we just need to let it soak in a fresh way just

pray through it. I think about this passage like we never want to get over the wonder and the weight and the beauty and the horror that are all

present in these verses.

Beauty that we're being healed from our wounds and saved from our transgressions,

the horror because Jesus was crushed for them, was pierced for them.

So let's just pray.

And God, as we pray, we pray that your word would take deeper root in our hearts and you would draw us closer to you.

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