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‏ Isaiah 53

1 Who hath believed ^▼▼1 our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? ^{▼▼1) Or that which we have heard} 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; ^▼▼1 and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. ^{▼▼1) Or that we should look upon him; nor beauty etc} 3 He was despised, and ^▼▼1 rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with ^▼▼2 grief: and ^▼▼3 as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. ^{▼▼1) Or forsaken 2) Heb sickness 3) Or he hid as it were his face from us}

4 Surely he hath borne our ^▼▼1 griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ^{▼▼1) Heb sicknesses} 5 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. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath ^▼▼1 laid on him the iniquity of us all. ^{▼▼1) Heb made to light} 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8 ^▼▼1 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who among them considered that he was cut off out of the land of the ^▼▼2 living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due ? ^{▼▼1) Or From 2) Or living? for the transgression of my people was he stricken} 9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; ^▼▼1 although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. ^{▼▼1) Or because}

10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath ^▼▼1 put him to grief: ^▼▼2 when thou shalt make his soul ^▼▼3 an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. ^{▼▼1) Heb made him sick 2) Or when his soul shall make an offering 3) Heb a trespass-offering} 11 ^▼▼1 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: ^▼▼2 by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant ^▼▼3 justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. ^{▼▼1) Or He shall see and be satisfied with the travail etc 2) Or by his knowledge 3) Or make many righteous} 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and ^▼▼1 made intercession for the transgressors. ^{▼▼1) Or maketh}