Isaiah 53

1  a Who has believed what he has heard from us? ▼
▼ Or  Who has believed what we have heard?

And to whom has c the arm of the  Lord been revealed?
 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
d and like a root out of dry ground;
e he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
 3  f He was despised and rejected ▼
▼ Or forsaken
 by men;
a man of sorrows ▼
▼ Or pains; also verse 4
 and acquainted with ▼
▼ Or  and knowing
 grief; ▼
▼ Or sickness; also verse 4

and as one from whom men hide their faces ▼
▼ Or  as one who hides his face from us

he was despised, and l we esteemed him not.
 4  m Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
n smitten by God, and afflicted.
 5  o But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
p and with his wounds we are healed.
 6  q All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
r and the  Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
 7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
s yet he opened not his mouth;
t like a u lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation v who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
 9 And they made his grave with the wicked
w and with a rich man in his death,
although x he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
 10  Yet y it was the will of the  Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief; ▼
▼ Or  he has made him sick

aa when his soul makes ▼
▼ Or  when you make his soul
 an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
ac the will of the  Lord shall prosper in his hand.
 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see ▼
▼ Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll  he shall see light
 and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ae the righteous one, my servant,
af make many to be accounted righteous,
ag and he shall bear their iniquities.
 12  ah Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many ▼
▼ Or  with the great

aj and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ▼
▼ Or  with the numerous

because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
al yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
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