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2. A Suffering Healer

Believe my report. The arm of the Lord has been revealed. He grew up before you as a young plant and as a root out of the dry ground. His form of attractiveness was not beauty and desire. He was despised and rejected, a man of suffering and acquainted with illness. And with hidden faces, we despised and disregarded him. Still, it was he who has borne our illnesses and carried our suffering, yet we counted him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God. But he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, punished for our peace, and by his stripes we were healed. Like sheep, everyone went astray and turned to his own way. Thus, Jehovah laid on him the iniquity of everyone. Oppressed and afflicted he opened not his mouth. Like a lamb brought to the slaughter, and as a dumb sheep before her shearers, so he opened not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment but who will declare to this generation that he was cut off out of the land of the living, and because of the transgression of the people was he stricken. His grave was with the wicked and with the rich in his death, though he did no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Still, it pleased Jehovah to bruise and weaken him and to make his soul an offering for sin. He will see his seed, and he prolongs his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah will prosper in his hand. And when he sees the labor of his soul he will be satisfied. By his knowledge will my righteous servant justify many and bear their iniquities. Therefore, have I divided him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoil of the strong. For it is he who poured out his soul unto death, and it was he who was numbered with the transgressors and bore the sin of many while making intercession for transgressors. In Exodus God revealed himself as Jehovah Rapha when He healed the entire nation all at once. There was not one feeble or sick person among them. He vowed to them to be their Physician. He gave them a free medical care and promised to heal them. God’s promise was one of health and prosperity if they continued in obedience, but they often turned from him and was sorely punished. But God has send his word to heal and by his stripes you are healed.