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He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.     

(Isaiah 53:3)     

He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off His hair: He hid not His face from shame and spitting.

(Isaiah 53:6) 

Chorus

Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows!

He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him.     

(Isaiah 53:4-5)     

Chorus

And with His stripes we are healed.     

(Isaiah 53:5)     

Chorus

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.     

(Isaiah 53:6)     

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All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying:     

(Psalm 22:7)     

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He trusted in God that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him. 

(Psalm 22:8)     

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Thy rebuke hath broken His heart: He is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort him.     

(Psalm 69:20)     

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Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow.

(Lamentations 1:12)

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He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgressions of Thy people was He stricken.     

(Isaiah 53:8)      

Tenor

But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.     

(Psalm 16:10) 

Chorus

The Lord gave the word; great was the company of the preachers.     

(Psalm 68:11)      

Soprano

How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.     

(Isaiah 52:7) 

Bass

Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing?

The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His anointed.     

(Psalm 2:1-2) 

Tenor

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.

(Psalms 2:4)

Tenor

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.    

(Psalm 2:9)

Bass

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.     

(I Corinthians 15:51-52)     

Bass

The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.

(I Corinthians 15:52-53)

Chorus

Hallelujah: for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.     

(Revelation 19:6)     

The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.     

(Revelation 11:15)     

King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.     

(Revelation 19:16)