Isaiah 53:1–8

Who has believed what we have heard?^E

And to whom has the arm of the Lord^s been revealed?^t

²He grew up before him like a young plant^u

and like a root out of dry ground.

He didn’t have an impressive form

or majesty that we should look at him,

no appearance that we should desire him.^v

³He was despised and rejected by men,^w

a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.^x

He was like someone people turned away from;^F

he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

⁴Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,

and he carried our pains;^y

but we in turn regarded him stricken,

struck down by God,^z and afflicted.

⁵But he was pierced because of our rebellion,^aa

crushed because of our iniquities;^ab

punishment^ac for our peace was on him,

and we are healed by his wounds.^ad

⁶We all went astray like sheep;^ae

we all have turned to our own way;

and the Lord has punished him

for^G the iniquity^af of us all.^ag

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth.

Like a lamb led to the slaughter

and like a sheep silent before her shearers,

he did not open his mouth.^ah

⁸He was taken away because of oppression and judgment,

and who considered his fate?^A

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

he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.