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grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
          root out of a dry ground: he has neither form
          nor  comeliness;  and  when  we  shall  see  him,
          there is no beauty that we should desire him.
          He  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.


          Surely, he has borne our grief and sorrows, yet
          we  did  esteem  him  stricken,  smitten  of  God,
          and  afflicted.  But  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.

          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. He
          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 are dumb, he opened not his mouth.


          He  was  taken  from  prison  and  judgment,  and
          who  shall  declare  his  generation?  For  he  was
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