10 Bible Verses About The Suffering Servant
10 Bible verses about The Suffering Servant to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
He was despised and shunned by everyone, a man of pains, no stranger to sickness. People turned their faces away from him; he was despised, and we counted him as nothing.
But it was for our rebellions that he was pierced through, for our guilt that he was crushed. On him fell the discipline that won our peace, and his welts have brought us healing.
He was hard pressed, and he bowed low under it, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a young sheep led off to be slaughtered, like a ewe silent in front of those who shear her, he did not open his mouth.
Just as many stared at you in horror (his appearance so ruined it no longer seemed a man’s, his form so marred it hardly looked human),
Rather, he emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant and coming to share the likeness of human beings. And when he was found in outward form as a human being, he humbled himself, becoming obedient all the way to death, death on a cross.
Yet it was our sicknesses that he bore, our pains that he shouldered, while we took him for a man under a plague, beaten down by God and brought low.
Every one of us has wandered off like sheep; we have each turned aside down our own path, and the LORD has made all our guilt fall on him.
Yet it pleased the LORD to crush him and make him sick. If he offers himself as a guilt offering, he will see children and live long days, and through his hands what pleases the LORD will thrive.
I let those who struck me have my back, and those who tore at my beard have my cheeks. I did not turn my face away from insult and spit.
After all his soul’s hard labor he will see, and he will have his fill. My servant, the righteous one, will make the many righteous by his knowledge, and he will shoulder their guilt.