Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Monday, December 30, 2019

Messiah: No. 31 He was cut off

The text is from Isaiah 53:8:  "By oppression and judgement he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?"