Bible verse for April 1

¹ Who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? ² He came up before him like a sapling, like a root out of thirsty ground. He had no stately form or splendor to draw our gaze, no appearance that would make us delight in him. ³ He was despised and shunned by others, a man of many pains, who knew sickness well. Like someone people hide their faces from, he was despised, and we counted him as nothing. ⁴ Surely it was our sicknesses he bore and our pains he carried, yet we thought of him as stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. ⁵ But he was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the discipline that secured our peace was laid on him, and by his wounds healing has come to us. ⁶ Like sheep, all of us have strayed; we have each turned to our own road, and Yahweh has brought down on him the iniquity of us all. ⁷ He was treated harshly, and he submitted, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb brought to be slaughtered, like a ewe that falls silent in front of her shearers, he did not open his mouth. ⁸ Through coercion and judgment he was taken away, and who of his generation gave it a thought? For he was cut off from the land of the living, struck down for my people’s transgression—the blow that was due to them.

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