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Throughout the book of Isaiah, we’ll hear references to one called the Servant. Though there is immediate application to be found by naming Israel as this Servant, the New Testament authors, who were filled with God’s Holy Spirit like Isaiah, saw another connection. You’ll probably see it, too. The ultimate Servant, the ultimate son of David, is the promised Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaiah 53 in particular, which is covered in today’s reading, is such a clear prediction of Christ’s work on the cross. He is the one who was pierced because of our rebellion and crushed because of our iniquities. Yet the Lord was pleased to crush him, and by his hand the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.
Isaiah 50 - 1:02 .
Isaiah 51 - 3:40 .
Isaiah 52 - 10:06 .
Isaiah 53 - 13:17 .
Isaiah 54 - 16:52 .
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Christian Standard Bible translation.
All music written and produced by John Burgess Ross.
Co-produced by the Christian Standard Bible.
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Commuter Bible OT — Isaiah 50-54. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
We are reading Isaiah chapters 50 through 54 here on commuter Bible Oatsy Throughout the book of Isaiah we hear references to one called the servant Though there is immediate application to be found by naming Israel as the servant the New Testament authors who were also filled with God's Spirit like Isaiah Saw an additional connection You'll probably see it too the ultimate servant the ultimate son of David is the promised Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ Isaiah 53 in particular which is covered in today's reading is such a clear prediction of Christ's work on the cross He is the one who was pierced because of our rebellion and crushed because of our iniquities Yet the Lord was pleased to crush him and by his hand the Lord's pleasure will be accomplished Isaiah chapters 50 through 54
This is what the Lord says Where is your mother's divorce certificate that I used to send her away or To which of my creditors did I sell you? Look you were sold for your iniquities and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is my arm too weak to redeem or do I have no power to rescue? Look I dry up the sea by my rebuke I Turned the rivers into a wilderness their fish rot because of lack of water and die of thirst I dress the heavens in black and make sack cloth their covering The Lord God Has given me the tongue of those who are instructed to know how to sustain the weary with a word
He awakens me each morning He awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed The Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious. I did not turn back I gave my back to those who beat me and My cheeks to those who tore out my beard I Did not hide my face from scorn and spitting The Lord God will help me Therefore I have not been humiliated Therefore I have set my face like flint and I know I will not be put to shame The one who vindicates me is near who will contend with me Let us confront each other who has a case against me let him come near me In truth the Lord God will help me Who will condemn me Indeed all of them will wear out like a garment a moth will devour them
Who among you fears the Lord and listens to his servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord let him lean on his God Look all of you who kindle a fire who encircle yourselves with torches Walk in the light of your fire and of the torches you have lit This is what you'll get from my hand You will lie down in a place of torment Listen to me you who pursue righteousness who seek the Lord? Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were dug Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who gave birth to you When I called him he was only one I blessed him and made him many For the Lord will comfort Zion He will comfort all her waste places and he will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord
Joy and gladness will be found in her thanksgiving and melodious song Pay attention to me my people and listen to me my nation for instruction will come from me and My justice for a light to the nations I Will bring it about quickly My righteousness is near my salvation appears and my arms will bring justice to the nations The coasts and islands will put their hope in me and they will look to my strength Look up to the heavens and look at the earth beneath For the heavens will vanish like smoke The earth will wear out like a garment and Its inhabitants will die like gnats But my salvation will last forever and My righteousness will never be shattered
Listen to me you who know righteousness The people in whose heart is my instruction Do not fear disgrace by men and Do not be shattered by their taunts For mawls will devour them like a garment and worms will eat them like wool But my righteousness will last forever and my salvation for all generations Wake up wake up arm of the Lord clothe yourself with strength Wake up as in days past as in generations long ago Wasn't it you who hacked a rehab to pieces who pierced the sea monster? Wasn't it you who dried up the sea the waters of the great deep Who made the sea bed into a road for the redeemed to pass over? And the ransom of the Lord will return and come to Zion with singing
crowned with unending joy Joy and gladness will overtake them and sorrow and sighing will flee I I am the one who comforts you Who are you that you should fear humans who die or a son of man who has given up like grass? But you have forgotten the Lord your maker who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth You are in constant dread all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who has set himself to destroy But where is the fury of the oppressor? The prisoner is soon to be set free He will not die and go to the pit and his food will not be lacking For I am the Lord God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar
His name is the Lord of armies I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand In order to plant the heavens to found the earth and to say to Zion You are my people Wake yourself wake yourself up stand up Jerusalem you who have drunk the cup of his fury from the Lord's hand You who have drunk the goblet to the dregs the cup that causes people to stagger There is no one to guide her among all the children she has raised There is no one to take hold of her hand among all the offspring she has brought up These two things have happened to you devastation and destruction famine and sword Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?
Your children have fainted They lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net They are full of the Lord's fury the rebuke of your God So listen to this Suffering and drunken one but not with wine This is what your Lord says The Lord even your God who defends his people Look I have removed from your hand the cup that causes staggering that goblet the cup of my fury You will never drink it again I will put it into the hands of your tormentors who said to you lie down so we can walk over you You made your back like the ground and like a street for those who walk on it
Wake up Put on your strength Zion Put on your beautiful garments Jerusalem the holy city For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer enter you Stand up shake the dust off yourself Take your seat Jerusalem Remove the bonds from your neck captive daughters Ion For this is what the Lord says You were sold for nothing And you will be redeemed without silver For this is what the Lord God says At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there Then a Syria oppressed them without cause So now what have I here? This is the Lord's declaration That my people are taken away for nothing It's rulers whale This is the Lord's declaration And my name is continually blasphemed all day long
Therefore my people will know my name Therefore they will know on that day that I am he who says Here I am How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald Who proclaims peace Who brings news of good things Who proclaims salvation Who says to Zion Your God reigns The voices of your watchman they lift up their voices shouting for joy together For every eye will see when the Lord returns to Zion Be joyful Rejoice together you ruins of Jerusalem For the Lord has comforted his people He has redeemed Jerusalem The Lord has displayed his holy arm in the sight of all the nations All the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God Leave
Leave go out from there Do not touch anything unclean Go out from her Purify yourselves You who carry the vessels of the Lord For you will not leave in a hurry And you will not have to take flight Because the Lord is going before you And the God of Israel is your rear guard See My servant will be successful He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted Just as many were appalled at you His appearance was so disfigured That he did not look like a man And his form did not resemble a human being So he will sprinkle many nations Kings will shut their mouths because of him
For they will see what had not been told them And they will understand what they had not heard Who has believed what we have heard And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed He grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground He didn't have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at him No appearance that we should desire him He was despised and rejected by men A man of suffering who knew what sickness was He was like someone people turned away from He was despised and we didn't value him Yet he himself bore our sicknesses and he carried our pains But we in turn regarded him stricken
Struck down by God and afflicted But he was pierced because of our rebellion Crushed because of our iniquities Punishment for our peace was on him and we are healed by his wounds We all went astray like sheep We all have turned to our own way and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us all He was oppressed and afflicted Yet he did not open his mouth Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her sheers He did not open his mouth He was taken away because of oppression and judgment And who considered his fate For he was cut off from the land of the living He was struck because of my people's rebellion He was assigned a grave with the wicked But he was with a rich man at his death
Because he had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully Yet the Lord was pleased to crush him severely When you make him a guilt offering He will see his seed He will prolong his days and by his hand The Lord's pleasure will be accomplished After his anguish He will see light and be satisfied By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many And he will carry their iniquities Therefore I will give him the many as a portion And he will receive the mighty as spoil Because he willingly submitted to death And was counted among the rebels Yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels
The Lord's pleasure Rejoice childless one who did not give birth Burst into song and shout You who have not been in labor For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married woman says the Lord enlarge the sight of your tent and let your tent curtains be stretched out Do not hold back Lengthen your ropes and drive your pegs deep For you will spread out to the right and to the left And your descendants will dispossess nations and inhabit the desolate cities Do not be afraid For you will not be put to shame
Don't be humiliated for you will not be disgraced For you will forget the shame of your youth And you will no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood Indeed Your husband is your maker His name is the Lord of armies And the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer He is called the God of the whole earth For the Lord has called you like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit A wife of one's youth when she is rejected says your God I deserted you for a brief moment but I will take you back with abundant compassion In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment But I will have compassion on you with everlasting love Says the Lord your redeemer For this is like the days of Noah to me When I swore that the water of Noah would never flood the earth again
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you Though the mountains move and the hills shake My love will not be removed from you and my covenant of peace will not be shaken Says your compassionate God Poor Jerusalem storm tossed and not comforted I will set your stones in black mortar and lay your foundations in lapis lazuli I will make your fortifications out of rubies your gates out of sparkling stones And all your walls out of precious stones Then all your children will be taught by the Lord Their prosperity will be great and you will be established on a foundation of righteousness You will be far from oppression You will certainly not be afraid You will be far from terror it will certainly not come near you
If anyone attacks you it is not from me Whoever attacks you will fall before you Look I have created the craftsman who blows on the charcoal fire and produces a weapon suitable for its task And I have created the destroyer to cause havoc No weapon formed against you will succeed And you will refute any accusation raised against you in court This is the heritage of the Lord's servants And their vindication is from me This is the Lord's declaration Today's episode was narrated and orchestrated by me, John Rhofs and Copriotus by the Christian Standard Bible Thanks for listening and remember to trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not rely on your own understanding In all your ways know Him and He will make your path astray
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