and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains, yet we

considered Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by God.

But He was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities.

The chastisement needed to obtain peace and

well-being for us was upon Him and with the stripes that

wounded Him we are healed and made whole.

All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned

every one to his own way; and the Lord has caused

the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted.

Yet He did not open His mouth

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

By oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation, who considered

That He was cut off out of the land of the living

For the transgression of my people,

to whom the stroke was due?

His grave was assigned with wicked men,

Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

But the Lord was pleased

To crush Him, putting Him to grief;

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,

He will see His offspring,

He will prolong His days,

And the good pleasure of the Lord

will prosper in His hand.

As a result of the anguish of His soul,

He will see it and be satisfied;

By His knowledge the Righteous One,

My Servant, will justify the many,

As He will bear their iniquities.

Therefore, I will allot Him a portion

with the great,

And He will divide the booty with the strong;

Because He poured out Himself to death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,

And interceded for the transgressors.”

(Isaiah 53.4-12).

HALLELUJAH! WE PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS

FOREVERMORE!

O Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His

mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has

delivered from the hand of the adversary,

And gathered them out of the lands, from the east

and from the west, from the north and from the sea

in the south.

Some wondered in the wilderness in a solitary desert

track, they found no city for habitation.

Hungry and thirsty, they fainted, their lives were near

to being extinguished.

then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He

delivered them out of their distresses.

He led them forth by the straight and right way, that

they might go to a city where they could establish their

homes.

Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and

loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children

of men!

For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in

affliction and in irons.

Because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned

the counsel of the Most High.

Therefore He bowed down their hearts with hard labor, they

stumbled and fell down and there was no one to help.

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He saved them

out of their distresses.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and

broke apart the bonds that held them.

Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and loving-

kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men!

For He has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron.

Some are fools because of the way of their transgressions and

are afflicted because of their iniquities.

They loath every kind of food and they draw near to the gates of death.

Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble and He delivers them out

of their distresses.

He sends forth His Word and rescues them from the pit and destruction.

Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness

and His wonderful works to the children of men!

And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and rehearse His

deeds with shouts of joy and singing!

Some go down to the sea and travel over it in ships to do business

in great waters.

These see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep.

For he commands and raises up the stormy wind,which lifts

up the waves of the sea.

Those aboard mount up to the heavens, they go down again

to the deeps, their courage melts away because of their plight.

They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are

at their wits’ end, all their wisdom has come to nothing.

Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble and He brings them

out of their distresses.

He hushes the storm to a calm and to a gentle whisper, so that

the waves of the sea are still.

Then the men are glad because of the calm, and He brings them

to their desired haven.

Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and loving-

kindness and wonderful works to the children of men!

Let them exalt Him also in the congregation of the people and

praise Him in the company of the elders.

He turns rivers into a wilderness, water springs into a thirsty ground.

A fruitful land into a barren, salt waste, because of the wickedness of

those who dwell in it.

He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry ground into water

springs.

And there He makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city

for habitation,

And sow fields and plant vineyads which yield fruits of increase.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and

allows not their cattle to decrease.

When they are diminished and bowed down through oppression,

trouble and sorrow,

He pours contempt upon princes and causes them to wonder in

waste places where there is no road.

Yet He raises the poor and needy from affliction and makes their

families like a flock.

The upright shall see it and be glad, but all iniquity shall shut its mouth.

Whoso is wise will observe and heed these things and they will diligently

consider the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord.

(Psalm107).

PRAISE THE LORD! THANK YOULORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!