The Humiliation and exaltation of Christ. <br /> <br />Isa. 53:1-5,10-12. <br /> <br />Who has believed thy word, <br />Or thy salvation known? <br />Reveal thine arm, Almighty Lord, <br />And glorify thy Son. <br /> <br />The Jews esteemed him here <br />Too mean for their belief; <br />Sorrows his chief acquaintance were, <br />And his companion, grief. <br /> <br />They turned their eyes away, <br />And treated him with scorn; <br />But 'twas their grief upon him lay, <br />Their sorrows he has borne. <br /> <br />'Twas for the stubborn Jews, <br />And Gentiles then unknown, <br />The God of justice pleased to bruise <br />His best-beloved Son. <br /> <br />"But I'll prolong his days, <br />And make his kingdom stand; <br />My pleasure," saith the God of grace, <br />"Shall prosper in his hand." <br /> <br />["His joyful soul shall see <br />The purchase of his pain <br />And by his knowledge justify <br />The guilty sons of men.] <br /> <br />["Ten thousand captive slaves, <br />Released from death and sin, <br />Shall quit their prisons and their graves <br />And own his power divine.] <br /> <br />["Heav'n shall advance my Son <br />To joys that earth denied; <br />Who saw the follies men had done, <br />And bore their sins, and died."]<br /><br />Isaac Watts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-141/
