The Scapegoat

‘Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.’

Isaiah 53:4

‘Frog, you know the ‘grain’ (disease) which seized me, but I do not know it. Frog, you know the ‘li-bu' (disease) which seized me, but I do not know it. When you try to hop off and return to your waters, you will return the evil to its steppe.’

— Neo-Assyrian prayer tablet