Or in the past:
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of
the LORD revealed? 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. Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes
we are healed. (Isaiah 53:1-6)
It is hard to force this passage into either a sadomasochistic box or a capitalist one; but I am sure it can be done, if one only pounds it long and hard enough, which should come readily to practitioners of either persuasion.