On the Suffering Servant
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Last Monday, I accidentally stumbled across the Songs of the Suffering Servant in the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible. I realised that the suffering servant is a more fitting description for me than our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when He showed up 2,000 years ago. To save you from reading through the 239 posts I wrote since the end of October, I will provide some quick references here to prove my claim.
FYI, I have been fulfilling prophecies in scripture on a small scale even before I read about them. I still nearly poop myself every time that happens.
Isaiah 49:1-6
The Servant of the LORD
[1] Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.
[2] He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me away.
[3] And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
[4] But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.”
[5] And now the LORD says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength—
[6] he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
Isaiah 52:13-15
He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions
[13] Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.
[14] As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
[15] so shall he sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Isaiah 53:1-9
[1] Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
[2] For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
[3] He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
[4] Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
[5] But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
[6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
[7] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
[8] By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
[9] And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
