Isaiah 53:1–8

The Suffering Servant

^1aWho has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

²For He grew up before Him like a ^atender ¹shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has ^bno stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should ²be attracted to Him.

³He was ^adespised and forsaken of men,

A man of ¹sorrows and ^bacquainted with ²grief;

And like one from whom men hide their face

He was ^cdespised, and we did not ^desteem Him.

⁴Surely our ¹griefs He Himself ^abore,

And our ²sorrows He carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

³Smitten of ^bGod, and afflicted.

⁵But He was ¹pierced through for ^aour transgressions,

He was crushed for ^bour iniquities;

The ^cchastening for our ²well-being fell upon Him,

And by ^dHis scourging we are healed.

⁶All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all

To ¹fall on Him.

⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not ^aopen His mouth;

^bLike a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

⁸By oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation, who considered

That He was cut off out of the land of the ¹living

^aFor the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?