在第三首歌中,天主的僕人分享了他使命生涯中的種種艱辛。
令人驚訝的是,僕人將他所遭受的苦難,包括敵人的暴力,與他從天主領受的教誨聯繫起來。
彷彿天主正透過苦難教導他,而僕人也忠實地學習這些痛苦的功課。
不僅如此,這樣的經驗也使僕人能夠向那些正在經歷各種磨難的人說出安慰和鼓勵的話語。他的苦難以一種神秘的方式安慰那些與他處境相同的人。
天主僕人的使命發生了令人意想不到的轉變,這種轉變使其真正具有普世意義,因為所有人都在遭受苦難,都需要他的安慰。
In this third song, the Servant of God shares about the hardships of his mission.
What looks surprising is the fact that the Servant links his sufferings, the violence he receives from his enemies to the teaching that he receives from the Lord.
It looks as if the Lord is teaching him through suffering and the Servant is faithful in learning such painful lessons.
Not only: such school enables the Servant to say consoling and encouraging words to those who undergo any sort of trial. His sufferings console, in a mysterious way, those who are in the same situation as he is.
The mission of the Servant gets a surprising turn, a turn that makes it really universal, because all suffer and need his consolation.