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Isaiah 53 · Grade 4

By His Wounds We Are Healed

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Isaiah 53 is the heart of what many call the fourth Servant Song. It begins, "Who has believed our message?" The Servant grew up "as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground." He did not look like a king. "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease."

People thought God was punishing him for his own sins. But the truth was different: "Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering." "He was pierced for our transgressions." "All we like sheep have gone astray... and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all." In the New Testament, 1 Peter 2:24-25 says Jesus bore our sins and uses the picture of straying sheep.

"As a lamb that is led to the slaughter... so he didn't open his mouth." He "had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth." Yet the chapter ends in victory: "After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied." In the New Testament, Philip explained this passage to an Ethiopian official as being about Jesus (Acts 8:32-35).

Show What You Know

  1. What did people wrongly think about the Servant?

  2. Whose sins did the Servant carry?

  3. Which New Testament passage uses the picture of straying sheep about Jesus?

  4. How does the chapter end?

Think About It

  1. All we like sheep have gone astray. In what ways do people turn to their own way instead of God's?

  2. In the New Testament, Jesus is described as the one who carried our sins (1 Peter 2:24). How should that make us feel about God's love?

Memory Verse

“But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.”

Isaiah 53:5 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for sending Jesus. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What is the structure of this song?
  • What does asham mean?

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