⁴This is what the Almighty Lord says: In the beginning my people went to Egypt to live there as foreigners. Later the Assyrians oppressed them for no reason. ⁵So what do I find here? asks the Lord. My people are taken away for no reason. Their rulers are screaming, declares the Lord. And my name is cursed all day long. ⁶Now my people will know my name. When that day comes, ⸤they will know⸥ that I am the one who says, “Here I am!”

⁷How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger

who announces the good news, “All is well.”

He brings the good news,

announces salvation,

and tells Zion that its God rules as king.

⁸Listen! Your watchmen raise their voices

and shout together joyfully.

When the Lord brings Zion back,

they will see it with their own eyes.

⁹Break out into shouts of joy, ruins of Jerusalem.

The Lord will comfort his people.

He will reclaim Jerusalem.

¹⁰The Lord will show his holy power to all the nations.

All the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

¹¹Run away! Run away!

Get away from there!

Do not touch anything unclean.^a

Get away from it!

Make yourselves pure,

you Levites who carry the utensils for the Lord’s temple.

¹²You will not go away in a hurry,

nor will you go away quickly.

The Lord will go ahead of you.

The God of Israel will guard you from behind.

The Suffering Servant

¹³My servant will be successful.

He will be respected, praised, and highly honored.

¹⁴Many will be shocked by him.^b

His appearance will be so disfigured

that he won’t look like any other man.

His looks will be so disfigured

that he will hardly look like a human.

¹⁵He will cleanse many nations ⸤with his blood⸥.

Kings will shut their mouths because of him.

They will see things that they had never been told.

They will understand things that they had never heard.

53RD CHAPTER

¹Who has believed our message?

To whom has the Lord’s power been revealed?

²He grew up in his presence like a young tree,

like a root out of dry ground.

He had no form or majesty that would make us look at him.

He had nothing in his appearance that would make us desire him.

³He was despised and rejected by people.

He was a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering.

He was despised like one from whom people turn their faces,

and we didn’t consider him to be worth anything.

⁴He certainly has taken upon himself our suffering

and carried our sorrows,

but we thought that God had wounded him,

beat him, and punished him.

⁵He was wounded for our rebellious acts.

He was crushed for our sins.

He was punished so that we could have peace,

and we received healing from his wounds.

⁶We have all strayed like sheep.

Each one of us has turned to go his own way,

and the Lord has laid all our sins on him.

⁷He was abused and punished,

but he didn’t open his mouth.

He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.

He was like a sheep that is silent

when its wool is cut off.

He didn’t open his mouth.

⁸He was arrested, taken away, and judged.

Who would have thought that he would be removed

from the world?

He was killed because of my people’s rebellion.

⁹He was placed in a tomb with the wicked.

He was put there with the rich when he died,

although he had done nothing violent

and had never spoken a lie.

¹⁰Yet, it was the Lord’s will to crush him with suffering.

When the Lord has made his life a sacrifice for our wrongdoings,

he will see his descendants for many days.

The will of the Lord will succeed through him.

¹¹He will see and be satisfied

because of his suffering.

My righteous servant will acquit many people

because of what he has learned ⸤through suffering⸥.

He will carry their sins as a burden.

¹²So I will give him a share among the mighty,

and he will divide the prize with the strong,

because he poured out his life in death

and he was counted with sinners.

He carried the sins of many.

He intercedes for those who are rebellious.

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Footnotes

a 52:11 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.
b 52:14 Two Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum; Masoretic Text “you.”