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 Meditating on these verses today/this week. 

(From Isaiah 53)

He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised,
and we held him in low esteem. 
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.



But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him.


He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth. 


Overcome by the love of my Savior.