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?

By oppression and judgment he was taken away;

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

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.

Know then that it is those of faith [in Christ] who are the sons of Abraham.

Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief;

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel-and God knew.

For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.