Oratorio Terezin Text: Part 4

GOD:
See, I am laying in Zion a stone,
A cornerstone chosen and precious;
And whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
(Isaiah 28:16)

PROPHET: (Isaiah 53)
Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with grief

(Children)
As one from whom others hide their faces

(Prophet)
He was despised and we held him of no account.

(Full Choir)
Surely, he has borne griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

(Prophet and full choir)
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 to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

(Prophet)
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

(Children)
Yet he did not open his mouth;

(Prophet)
Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

(Children)
And like a sheep that before it's shearers is silent,

(Prophet)
So he did not open his mouth.

(Full Choir)
By a perversion of justice he was taken away.

(Prophet)
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.

(Children and the Voice of God supporting)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Psalm 22:1)

(Prophet)
Yet it was the will of the lord to crush him with pain.
The righteous One, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their sin.

 

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