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Written by John Palmer, January 1982, Vancouver, BC
Recorded October/November 2106, Kitchener/Fergus, ON
Remastered May 2020, The Cave, Vancouver, BC
John Palmer (1960-2007) was a founding member of Toronto-based 80s band Fourth Watch (later Red Rain of Sanctuary Toronto) as well as a regular guest artist at the Evergreen/Yonge Street Mission.
"Isaiah 53" is part of a small collection covering some of John's finest work in tribute to the man, his testimony, and his Lord.
lyrics
We all 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
From the last one saved back to Adam's fall
Surely He hath borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows
Yet we did esteem Him stricken
Smitten of God and afflicted
But He was wounded for our transgressions
He was pierced for our iniquities
The chastisement of our peace was upon Him
And with His stripes we are healed
He is despised and rejected of men
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
And we hid as it were our faces from Him
He was despised and we esteemed Him not
He was oppressed, He was afflicted
Yet He opened not his mouth
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter
As a sheep before her shearers is dumb
He was taken from prison and from judgment
And who shall declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living
For the transgression of my people was He stricken
He made his grave with the wicked
And with the rich in his death
Because He had done no violence
Neither was any deceit in His breath
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him
He hath put Him to grief:
When Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin
He shall see His seed
He is despised and rejected of men
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
And we hid as it were our faces from Him
He was despised and we esteemed Him not
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Incidental Music homepage banner artwork:
"The Frieze of the Prophets," John Singer Sargent (American) 1902
Left-to-right: Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah, Hosea, Amos, Nahum, Ezekiel, Daniel, Elijah, Moses (with Ten Commandments), Joshua, Jeremiah, Jonah, Isaiah, Habakkuk, Micah, Haggai, Malachi, Zechariah.
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