Cut Off --- Isaiah 53; Part 8

"Saying, God hath forsaken Him: persecute and take Him;
For there is none to deliver Him."

As a lamb bound for slaughter, was He grimly shuttled,
From curia, to the council of elders, then unto Caesar;
Hurriedly handled in the fell of night, beset by focused steel.
No crier was sent out to arouse a witness of exemption;
No weeper, wailing urgently, led His death procession,
Seeking mercy and quittance, as was the custom;
In His humiliation at foul hands; judgment was detracted:
An unjust death by illegal violence under the mask of law.

"Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought
False witness against Jesus, to put Him to death"

In great solitude of bitter encumbrance was He consumed;
As He had lived--misapprehended and despised--so He died:
Cut off out of the land of the living; yet not for Himself.
A deep cry of agony rent His soul and pierced the air,
As the appointed burden was cast fully upon Him,
And the Love in which He lived turned away in censure;
He was consumed and drained as a pool in the desert:
Delivered; stricken; to make atonement for transgression.


"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were
Yet sinners, Christ died for us."