Isaiah 53

¹ Who has believed what we heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

² He grew up before him like a young shoot, like a root in dry ground. He had no form or beauty for us to look at, no appearance that would please us.

³ He was despised and rejected by people, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. He was like someone from whom we hide our faces; he was despised, and we paid no attention to him.

⁴ Indeed, he took our illnesses and carried our pains; yet we considered him stricken, struck down by God, and humiliated.

⁵ He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our guilt; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we were healed.

⁶ All of us, like sheep, went astray; each of us turned to his own way, and the LORD laid the guilt of us all on him.

⁷ He was oppressed and humbled himself, and did not open his mouth; like a lamb led to slaughter, like a sheep silent before its shearers, he did not open his mouth.

⁸ From prison and judgment he was taken away; who considered his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people, the blow fell on him.

⁹ They assigned his grave with the wicked and, in his death, with a rich man, though he had done no violence and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet the LORD was pleased to crush him, causing him to suffer. If his life becomes an offering for guilt, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

¹¹ After the suffering of his life, he will see and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will make many righteous, and he will bear their guilt.

¹² Therefore I will give him a portion among the many, and he will divide the spoil with the powerful, because he poured out his life to death and was counted among the transgressors; he bore the sin of many and intercedes for the transgressors.

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