Isaiah 53
1 ನಮ್ಮ ಸುದ್ಧಿಯನ್ನು ಯಾರು ನಂಬಿದ್ದಾರೆ? ಕರ್ತನ ತೋಳು ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾ ಯಿತು?
2 ಆತನು ಚಿಗುರಿನಂತೆಯೂ ಒಣನೆಲದಿಂದ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಬರುವ ಬೇರಿನಂತೆಯೂ ಆತನ ಮುಂದೆ ಬೆಳೆ ಯುವನು. ಆತನಿಗೆ ಯಾವ ರೂಪವಾಗಲಿ ಅಂದವಾ ಗಲಿ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ; ನಾವು ಆತನನ್ನು ನೋಡಿದಾಗ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ಅಪೇಕ್ಷಿಸುವಂಥ ಯಾವ ಚಂದವೂ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ.
3 ಆತನು ಮನುಷ್ಯರಿಂದ ತಳ್ಳಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನೂ ತಿರಸ್ಕರಿಸ ಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನೂ ದುಃಖಿತ ಮನುಷ್ಯನೂ ಕಷ್ಟವನ್ನು ಅರಿತ ವನೂ; ನಾವು ನಮ್ಮ ಮುಖಗಳನ್ನು ಆತನಿಂದ ಮರೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಹಾಗೆ ಧಿಕ್ಕರಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನೂ ಆಗಿದ್ದನು. ನಾವು ಆತನನ್ನು ಲಕ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ತರಲಿಲ್ಲ.
4 ನಿಶ್ಚಯವಾಗಿಯೂ ಆತನು ನಮ್ಮ ಸಂಕಟಗಳನ್ನು ಸಹಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ನಮ್ಮ ದುಃಖಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊತ್ತನು; ಆದರೂ ನಾವು ಆತನನ್ನು ಪೆಟ್ಟು ತಿಂದವನು, ದೇವರಿಂದ ಹೊಡೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನು, (ಶಿಕ್ಷಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನು) ಹಿಂಸಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನು ಎಂದು ಭಾವಿಸಿ ಕೊಂಡೆವು.
5 ನಮ್ಮ ದ್ರೋಹಗಳ ನಿಮಿತ್ತ ಆತನಿಗೆ ಗಾಯವಾಯಿತು, ನಮ್ಮ ದುಷ್ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳ ನಿಮಿತ್ತ ಆತನು ಜಜ್ಜಲ್ಪಟ್ಟನು; ನಮ್ಮ ಸಮಾಧಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾದ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆಯು ಆತನ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಿತ್ತು; ಆತನ ಬಾಸುಂಡೆ ಗಳಿಂದ ನಮಗೆ ಸ್ವಸ್ಥವಾಯಿತು.
6 ನಾವೆಲ್ಲರೂ ದಾರಿ ತಪ್ಪಿದ ಕುರಿಗಳಂತಿದ್ದೆವು; ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬನು ತನ್ನ ತನ್ನ ಸ್ವಂತ ಮಾರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ ತಿರುಗಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದನು; ಕರ್ತನು ನಮ್ಮ ದುಷ್ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಆತನ ಮೇಲೆ ಹಾಕಿದನು.
7 ಆತನು ಪೀಡಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನೂ ಮತ್ತು ಹಿಂಸಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನೂ ಆಗಿದ್ದನು. ಆದರೂ ಆತನು ತನ್ನ ಬಾಯನ್ನು ತೆರೆಯಲೇ ಇಲ್ಲ; ವಧಿಸುವದಕ್ಕೆ ತರಲ್ಪ ಡುವ ಕುರಿಮರಿಯಂತೆಯೂ ಉಣ್ಣೆ ಕತ್ತರಿಸುವವರ ಮುಂದೆ ಇದ್ದ ಕುರಿಯ ಹಾಗೆಯೂ ಆತನು ಮೌನ ವಾಗಿದ್ದನು. ಹೀಗೆ ಆತನು ತನ್ನ ಬಾಯನ್ನು ತೆರೆಯಲೇ ಇಲ್ಲ.
8 ಆತನು ಸೆರೆಯಿಂದಲೂ ನ್ಯಾಯತೀರ್ಪಿ ನಿಂದಲೂ ತೆಗೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟನು; ಆತನ ಸಂತತಿಯನ್ನು ತಿಳಿಯಪಡಿಸಿದವರು ಯಾರು? ಆತನು ಜೀವಿತರ ದೇಶದಿಂದ ಕಡಿಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವನು (ತೆಗೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟನು); ತನ್ನ ಪ್ರಜೆಯ ದ್ರೋಹಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಆತನು ಪೆಟ್ಟು ತಿಂದನು.
9 ಆತನು ಮರಣವನ್ನು ಧನಿಕರೊಂದಿಗೂ ಆತನ ಸಮಾಧಿಯನ್ನು ದುಷ್ಟರೊಂದಿಗೂ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡನು. ಆತನು ಯಾವ ಬಲಾತ್ಕಾರವನ್ನೂ ಮಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ ಇಲ್ಲವೆ ಆತನ ಬಾಯಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವ ವಂಚನೆಯೂ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ.
10 ಆದಾಗ್ಯೂ ಆತನನ್ನು ಜಜ್ಜುವದು ಕರ್ತನಿಗೆ ಮೆಚ್ಚಿಕೆ ಯಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಆತನು (ದೇವರು) ಆತನನ್ನು ಸಂಕಟಕ್ಕೆ ಒಳಪಡಿಸಿದನು; ನೀನು ಆತನ ಪ್ರಾಣವನ್ನು ಪಾಪ ಕ್ಕೋಸ್ಕರ ಬಲಿಯನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುವಾಗ ಆತನು ತನ್ನ ಸಂತಾನವನ್ನು ನೋಡುವನು. ಆತನು ತನ್ನ ದಿವಸ ಗಳನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸುವನು, ಕರ್ತನ ಸಂತೋಷವು ಆತನ ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಫಲವಾಗುವದು.
11 ಆತನು ತನ್ನ ಆತ್ಮದ ವೇದನೆಯನ್ನು ಕಂಡು ತೃಪ್ತನಾಗುವನು; ತನ್ನ ತಿಳುವ ಳಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ನೀತಿವಂತನಾದ ನನ್ನ ಸೇವಕನು ಅನೇಕ ರಿಗೆ ನೀತಿಯನು ಉಂಟುಮಾಡುವನು; ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಆತನು ಅವರ ದುಷ್ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊತ್ತುಕೊಳ್ಳುವನು.
12 ಆದದರಿಂದ ನಾನು ಆತನಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ದೊಡ್ಡ ವರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಭಾಗಮಾಡುವೆನು ಆತನು ಬಲಿಷ್ಠರ ಸಂಗಡ ಕೊಳ್ಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಲುಮಾಡುವನು; ಆತನು ತನ್ನ ಪ್ರಾಣವನ್ನು ಮರಣದ ವರೆಗೆ ಹೊಯ್ದು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ದ್ರೋಹಿಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ಎಣಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟನು; ಅನೇಕರ ಪಾಪ ವನ್ನು ಹೊತ್ತುಕೊಂಡು ದ್ರೋಹಿಗಳಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ವಿಜ್ಞಾ ಪನೆ ಮಾಡಿದನು.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 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.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 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.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And 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 mouth.
10 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 shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.
5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.
18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
19 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth.
24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.