Memory Monday on a Wednesday

I guess you can tell it's Passion Play time and many things are vying for my attention.
Some time in the night last night I realized that I never put up a verse for Memory Monday this week.

We've been memorizing some verses from Isaiah 53
We've learned part of verses 3 & 4. Today we are going to add verse 5.

3.He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief ; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.


4.Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried ; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

5.But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities ; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
 
We have made crosses into beautiful things. (And that's OK.) I have several ornate metal crosses in my office. Many wear beautiful gold crosses on necklaces.
 
But in reality, the cross was a horrible means of execution.If we were to actually witness someone dying on a cross we would be horrified - even if the person had committed terrible offenses we wouldn't want to see him die that way.
 
But it was that horrible death - spoken of in Isaiah 53 - that brought our forgiveness - our healing.
 
5.But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities ; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.