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I have a hymn history of a song about the death, burial and resurrection of Christ based upon Isaiah 53. It is a sober song that makes us reflect upon what Jesus did and why He did it. The video contains the words.
ISAIAH 53:4-12 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 bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Thomas Obadiah Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866 in a log cabin and worked the family farm. Thomas became a teacher at age sixteen in the same school where he had been educated. He had a Christian conversion at age 27 during a revival led by Dr. Henry Clay Morrison. He managed to write over 1,200 sacred poems over his lifetime that were widely published. In 1923 Thomas wrote the celebrated hymn "Great is Thy Faithfulness" after the wreckage of WWI. After WWII began he wrote “He Was Wounded For Our Transgressions.” Mr. Chisholm once said “I sought to be true to the Word and avoid flippant and catchy titles or treatment. I have greatly desired that each hymn or poem might have some definite message to the hearts for whom it was written.”
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