Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted

Stricken, smitten, and afflicted,
See Him dying on the tree!
’Tis the Christ by man rejected;
Yes, my soul, ’tis He, ’tis He!
’Tis the long expected prophet,
David’s Son, yet David’s Lord;
Proofs I see sufficient of it:
’Tis a true and faithful Word.
 
Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning,
Was there ever grief like His?
Friends through fear His cause disowning,
Foes insulting his distress:
Many hands were raised to wound Him,
None would interpose to save;
But the deepest stroke that pierced Him
Was the stroke that Justice gave.
 
Ye who think of sin but lightly,
Nor suppose the evil great,
Here may view its nature rightly,
Here its guilt may estimate.
Mark the Sacrifice appointed!
See Who bears the awful load!
’Tis the Word, the Lord’s Anointed,
Son of Man, and Son of God.
 
Here we have a firm foundation,
Here the refuge of the lost.
Christ the Rock of our salvation,
Christ the Name of which we boast.
Lamb of God for sinners wounded!
Sacrifice to cancel guilt!
None shall ever be confounded
Who on Him their hope have built.
 
- Thom­as Kel­ly -

 

 
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 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. 

Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 

  

Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, 

yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 

  

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; 

the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,

 and by his wounds we are healed. 

  

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; 

and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 

  

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; 

he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, 

so he did not open his mouth.

  

Isaiah 53:3-7