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Although harshly treated and afflicted,
    he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
    and like a sheep that keeps silent before its shearers,
    he did not open his mouth.
Unjustly condemned, he was taken away,
    and who gave any thought to his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living
    and stricken for the sins of his people.
They assigned him a grave with the wicked
    and a burial place with evildoers,
even though he had done no act of violence
    nor had he ever spoken deceitfully.

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