Isaiah 53

LIII

¹Who hath believed our report,

And to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

²For he grew up like a tender plant before him,

And like a root out of a dry ground:

He had neither form nor splendour that we should regard him;

Nor yet an appearance, that we should desire him.

³He was despised and abandoned by men,

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,

And as one that hideth his face from us:

He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴But it was our infirmities that he bare,

And our sorrows that he carried:

Yet we did esteem him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵And 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.

⁶All we, like sheep, have gone astray;

We have turned every one to his own way;

But Jehovah hath made to meet on him the iniquity of us all:

⁷He was oppressed, and he submitted himself, and opened not his mouth:

He was led as a lamb to the slaughter;

And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,

So he opened not his mouth.

⁸He was taken from prison and from judgment:

And who shall declare his generation?

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

For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

⁹And his grave was appointed with the wicked;

But it was with the rich at his death,

Because he had done no violence;

Neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰But Jehovah was pleased to bruise him; He put him to grief:

If his soul shall make an offering for sin,

He shall see seed; he shall prolong days,

And the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hands.

¹¹He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied;

By the knowledge of him my righteous servant shall justify many;

For he shall bear their iniquities.

¹²Therefore will I distribute to him the many for his portion,

And he shall distribute the strong as a spoil;

Because he poured out his soul unto death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

And he bare the sin of many,

And made intercession for the transgressors.