Good Friday Lectionary Reading

GOOD FRIDAY LECTIONARY:
Isaiah 52:13-53:12

[13] See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up,
and shall be very high. [14] Just as there were many who were
astonished
at him--so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance, and his
form beyond that of mortals--[15] so he shall startle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which had not
been told them they shall see, and that which they had not heard they
shall contemplate.

[1] Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the
LORD been revealed? [2] For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we
should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire
him. [3] He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering
and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their
faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.

[4] Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet
we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. [5] But
he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we
are healed. [6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned
to our own way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

[7] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his
mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that
before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. [8] By a
perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his
future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for
the transgression of my people. [9] They made his grave with the
wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.

[10] Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him with pain. When
you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, and
shall prolong his days; through him the will of the LORD shall prosper.
[11] Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction
through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many
righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. [12] Therefore I will
allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil
with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was
numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and
made intercession for the transgressors.