For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground.
He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief.
And we hid as it were our faces from him.
He was despised and we esteemed him not.
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before Hashirah's his dung,
so he opened not his mouth.
The spirit of an evil tongue can cut you like a knife and leave you bleeding to the
bone and fighting for your life.
But the spirit of a righteous tongue will help you understand that there's mercy and
forgiveness in the silence of the land.
I was at the point of no return with nowhere left to go until I met my Savior.
How was I to know that the nails that pierced his hands and feet would help me
understand that there's mercy and forgiveness in the silence of the land.
There's mercy and forgiveness in the Lamb who did not speak.
When he was scorned and ridiculed, he turned the other cheek.
And he gave his life so willingly for those like you and me.
When he drank the cup that we must drink that day on Calvary.
Who am I that God would give his only Son for me?
Had I been there, I would have cried, let's nail him to that tree.
For I'm no different than the rest who spurned the Savior's love.
My sins were stained in crimson red.
Now they're covered by his blood.
There's mercy and forgiveness in the Lamb who did not speak.
When he was scorned and ridiculed, he turned the other cheek.
And he gave his life so willingly for those like you and me.
When he drank the cup that we must drink that day on Calvary.
Now I have been forgiven for the things I've said and done.
My sins are on the altar of the Father and his Son.
It's by their grace that I am free and now I understand.
That there's mercy and forgiveness in the silence of the Lamb.
There is mercy and forgiveness in the silence of the Lamb.