Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 53

Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 53

Who has believed the things that we have heard
and to whom has the LORD’s arm been revealed?
For he grew up, it was before the LORD,
like a young plant, a root, in arid ground,
possessing neither form nor majesty
that we should look at him, there was no thing 
in his appearance that, our hearts, might win.
He was despised and he was shunned by all;
a man of sorrows, sufferings, their thrall,
he knew, and as one, from whom, they would hide
their faces.  How he was, as one despised,
and we held him of no account, as poor.

Yet it was our afflictions that he bore
and it was too, our pain that he endured.
While we thought of him as a smitten one
whom God afflicted, with disease, struck down,
whereas for our offenses, he was pierced,
for our iniquities, why he was crushed;
upon him, there, the punishment was placed 
that made us whole, and by them we are healed,
his bruises.  We had all strayed just like sheep,
each of us, how we followed our own way,
and on him, this is what the LORD has laid,
of us all, the iniquity, its weight.

He was afflicted and he was oppressed
but did not, up, open, to protest,
his mouth, just like a sheep, to slaughter, led,
and like a ewe is silent, them, before,
the shearers, he, his mouth, up, opened, ne’er.
He was oppressed, too, sentenced and condemned,
and he, away, was taken. Yet who gave
a thought about his destiny, his fate?
For from the living’s land, off, he was cut,
for their transgressions, how he, dead, was struck,
his people’s.  There, with them, they made his grave,
the wicked; with the rich, his tomb was placed,
although he never, violence, had done,
and in his mouth, there, no deceit was found.

Yet, it was the will of the LORD, with pain,
to crush him.  What he’ll see, as it, for sin,
an offering, when he makes his life one?
His offspring, and how he’ll prolong his days;
through him, the LORD’s will, prosper, he will make.
Out of his anguish, how he shall see light,
how satisfaction, that, what he shall find,
it’s through his knowledge.  How, the one who’s right,
my servant, he, shall many, righteous, make,
and, their iniquities, he’ll bear them all.
Therefore, I will allot him, with the great, 
a portion, and how he’ll divide the spoil,
with them, the strong, because, how he, out, has,
to death, himself, poured, how he, numbered, was
with the transgressors, yet on him was placed
the sin of many, and he, on that day,
for the transgressors, intercession, made.