Isaiah 53

¹Who has believed our message,

²For he went up like a shoot before him,[#Or “And”; #Or “grew”]

He had no form and no majesty that we should see him,

³He was despised and rejected by men,

and like one from whom others hide their faces, he was despised,

⁴However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses,

yet we ourselves assumed him stricken,

⁵But he was pierced because of our transgressions,[#Or “And”; #Or “wounded”]

the chastisement for our peace was upon him,

⁶All of us have wandered about like sheep;

and Yahweh let fall on him

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,

he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter,

so he did not open his mouth.

⁸He was taken by restraint of justice,

and who concerned himself with his generation?

For he was cut off from the land of the living;

⁹He made his grave with the wicked,[#Or “gave”]

although he had done no violence,

¹⁰Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him;[#Or “And”]

If she places his life a guilt offering,

He will prolong days,

¹¹From the trouble of his life he will see;[#Or “soul”; #Dead Sea Scrolls add “light”]

In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous,

¹²Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many,[#Or “great”]

because he poured his life out to death

and he was the one who bore the sin of many