Rom 15:14-16 LEB 14 Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another. 15 But I have written to you more boldly on some points, so as to remind you again because of the grace that has been given to me by God, 16 with the result that I am a servant of Christ Yeshua to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Eph 4:15-16 LEB 15 But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him with reference to all things, who is the head, Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.

Gen 2:1-3 LEB 1 And heaven and earth and all their array were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and he sanctified it, because on it he rested from all his work of creating that there was to do.

Exo 5:1-5 LEB 1 And afterward, Moses and Aaron went, and they said to Pharaoh, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, ‘Release my people so that they may hold a festival for me in the desert.’ ” 2 And Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh that I should listen to his voice to release Israel? I do not know Yahweh, and also I will not release Israel.” 3 And they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day journey into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest he strike us with plague or with sword.” 4 And the king of Egypt said, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people from their work? Go to your forced labor!” 5 And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you want to stop them from their forced labor.”

Genesis 14:21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but the possessions take for yourself.”

Isa 53:3 LEB He was despised and rejected by men,  a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness,  and like one from whom others hide their faces, he was despised,  and we did not hold him in high regard.

Isaiah 53:6 LEB
All of us have wandered about like sheep;
    we each have turned to his own way;
and Yahweh let fall on him
    the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:4 LEB However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses,  and he carried our pain,  yet we ourselves assumed him stricken,  struck down by God and afflicted.

Isa 53:5 LEB But he was pierced because of our transgressions,  crushed because of our iniquities;  the chastisement for our peace was upon him,  and by his wounds we were healed.

Isa 52:13 LEB Look, my servant shall achieve success;  he shall be exalted,  and he shall be lifted up,  and he shall be very high.

Isa 52:14 LEB Just as many were appalled at you—  such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement,  and his form beyond the sons of mankind—

so he shall sprinkle (startle/ cause to leap back) many nations;
    because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.
For they shall see what has not been told them,
    and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.

Who has believed our message,  and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?  Isa 53:1 LEB       


*Who heard our report and judged him faithful? Who actually believed what they were hearing from us? Who was let in on it, and who could actually see what the arm of Yahweh was up to? [dynamic translation of servant song]

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth.


And like a little suckling, infant plant, the servant grew up before Yahweh, a small shoot from Israel’s soil. The servant came up in the world like the root of David, up out of a dry, unsupporting and unsuspecting land: Since he lacked the stature and form we associated with majesty, we didn’t even notice him. See it from our perspective:  in our eyes, he didn’t possess an appearance that would make us fawn over him in envy.