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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="ISA.6.1+ISA.6.2+ISA.6.3+ISA.6.4+ISA.6.5+ISA.6.6+ISA.6.7+ISA.6.8">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And they were calling to one another:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Holy, holy, holy is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">the whole earth is full of his glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With it he touched my mouth and said, &#8220;See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="ISA.7.10+ISA.7.11+ISA.7.12+ISA.7.13+ISA.7.14+ISA.7.15+ISA.7.16+ISA.7.17">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Again the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Ahaz, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Ahaz said, &#8220;I will not ask; I will not put the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to the test.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said, &#8220;Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore the Lord himself will give you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> a sign: The virgin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">young woman</span></span></span><span class="content"> will conceive and give birth to a son, and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">son, and he </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">son, and they</span></span></span><span class="content"> will call him Immanuel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah&#8212;he will bring the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch52" data-usfm="ISA.52.13+ISA.52.14+ISA.52.15">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">See, my servant will act wisely</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will prosper</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Just as there were many who were appalled at him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">and his form marred beyond human likeness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so he will sprinkle many nations,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">so will many nations be amazed at him </span><span class="ft">(see also Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">and kings will shut their mouths because of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">For what they were not told, they will see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">and what they have not heard, they will understand.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch53" data-usfm="ISA.53.1+ISA.53.2+ISA.53.3+ISA.53.4+ISA.53.5+ISA.53.6+ISA.53.7+ISA.53.8+ISA.53.9+ISA.53.10+ISA.53.11+ISA.53.12">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Who has believed our message</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="content">and to whom has the arm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> been revealed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He grew up before him like a tender shoot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">and like a root out of dry ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was despised and rejected by mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">Like one from whom people hide their faces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surely he took up our pain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">and bore our suffering,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">yet we considered him punished by God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">stricken by him, and afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But he was pierced for our transgressions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">he was crushed for our iniquities;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">the punishment that brought us peace was on him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">and by his wounds we are healed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We all, like sheep, have gone astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">each of us has turned to our own way;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has laid on him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">the iniquity of us all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He was oppressed and afflicted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">yet he did not open his mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">so he did not open his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By oppression</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">From arrest</span></span></span><span class="content"> and judgment he was taken away.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">Yet who of his generation protested?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">For he was cut off from the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">for the transgression of my people he was punished.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He was assigned a grave with the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">and with the rich in his death,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">though he had done no violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">nor was any deceit in his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">and though the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> makes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">though you make</span></span></span><span class="content"> his life an offering for sin,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">he will see his offspring and prolong his days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">and the will of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will prosper in his hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After he has suffered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">he will see the light of life</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">the light of life</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and be satisfied</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Or (with Masoretic Text) </span><span class="fv">11 </span><span class="fqa">He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">by his knowledge</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">by knowledge of him</span></span></span><span class="content"> my righteous servant will justify many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">and he will bear their iniquities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">many</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and he will divide the spoils with the strong,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">numerous</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">because he poured out his life unto death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and was numbered with the transgressors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">For he bore the sin of many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and made intercession for the transgressors.</span></span></div>
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