Isaiah 53 described in prophecy many of the details covered in today's ABF. I have just been paraphrasing it this past week so I thought I would share it here. Some of the alternate meanings of the words seem to apply better than the A.V. It is a very loose translation and you will see I had some trouble with a few places. The meaning of the text was drawn from the Septuagint as well as the Hebrew. The text begins in chapter 52:
Isaiah 52:13 Behold! My Servant walked circumspectly. He has been lifted up, and is to rise up, and will be exalted on high. 14) Many were stunned by His appearance. It was disfigured as much as any man, more than people could imagine. 15) These things startled many nations causing them to marvel, though many kings gathered together to stop their mouths because such a thing had never been told them. They were trying to reason out things they had not seen nor heard.
Isaiah 53
:1 Lord, who can understand our report? How can the strong arm of the LORD be stripped naked with total destruction or made to pay the price? 2) For He has come up before Him from infancy, and from the lowliest of people in a thirsty land. He is not seen as glorious nor majestic, and when we did see Him we saw no beauty to desire. 3) However we saw Him dishonored, despised by all men, a man made to know and bear infirmity, painfully wounded, causing people to distance themselves from Him. He was faulted and charged for that which was not of Him. 4) Indeed His grief was our sin that He has taken, and it was our painful sorrows He dragged with Him. We charged Him off as stricken sorely and brought down, slain by God. 5) Wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our sins, yes it was His payment for our sins that bought our peace. We have been completely healed of sin's curse by Him taking our blows. 6) Like all the sheep we have wandered off. Every man has traveled his own path and the LORD has given Him up for our sin.
:7 He was stressed to the limits of endurance and being distressed by prolonged suffering yet without opening His mouth. He was to be carried as a lamb to the slaughtering place. As sheep face to face with a shearer make no sound, likewise He does not open His mouth. 8) He was taken captive by coercion without any rights. Which of them living then gave it any thought that His life was cut off for the sin of the whole earth? He was put to death for the transgression of my people 9) and He was given a burial in place of sinners. Because He had not committed any sin nor been found with deceit in his mouth, the wealthy were against His death.
:10 Yet the LORD willed Him the wounds; He was the One bringing grief. Before You accepted His soul as a offering for sin He saw His nakedness, He has prolonged His hour, and the LORD has willed to advance His hand. 11) Of the anguish of His soul He considered it completed. "Guiding the understanding with His light, My Righteous Servant has justified many; He has carried their sins away. 12) I divided His inheritance with many; His share of it was the countless lacerations." He has poured Himself out with the death of His soul. He was counted as one of the transgressors, a paradox however, for He bore many sins and interceded for the transgressors.