“My people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him without cause.^c ⁵And now what do I have here?” declares^d Yahweh, “for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl,” declares^e Yahweh—“and my name is reviled continually, all day. ⁶Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. Here am I.”^f

⁷How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,

who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns as a king.”

⁸The voices^g of your watchmen! They lift up their voices;^h

together they sing for joy;

for they clearlyⁱ see Yahweh’s return to Zion.

⁹Break forth,

sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem,

for Yahweh has comforted his people;

he has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰Yahweh has bared his holy arm^j to the eyes of all the nations,

and all the ends^k of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

¹¹Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing.

Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.

¹²For you shall not go out in haste,

and you shall not go in flight,

for Yahweh is going before you,

and your rear guard is the God of Israel.

The Servant’s Suffering and Exaltation

¹³Look, my servant shall achieve success;

he shall be exalted,

and he shall be lifted up,

and he shall be very high.

¹⁴Just as many were appalled at you—

such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement,

and his form beyond the sons of mankind—

¹⁵so he shall sprinkle many nations;

because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.^l

For they shall see what has not been told them,

and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.

53Who has believed our message,

and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

²For^a he went^b up like a shoot before him,

and like a root from dry ground.

He had no form and no majesty that^c we should see him,

and no appearance that^d we should take pleasure in him.

³He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of suffering, and acquainted with^e sickness,

and like one from whom others hide their faces,^f he was despised,

and we did not hold him in high regard.

⁴However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses,

and he carried our pain,

yet^g we ourselves assumed him stricken,

struck down by God and afflicted.

⁵But^h he was piercedⁱ for our transgressions,

crushed because of our iniquities;

the chastisement for^j our peace^k was upon him,

and by his wounds^l we were healed.^m

⁶All of us have wandered about like sheep;

we each have turned to his own way;

and Yahweh let fall on him

the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,

yetⁿ he did not open his mouth;

he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter,

and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers,

so^o he did not open his mouth.

⁸He was taken by restraint of justice,

and who concerned himself with his generation?

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

he received a blow because of the transgression of my people.

⁹He made^p his grave with the wicked,

and with the rich in his death,

although he had done no violence,

and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet^q Yahweh was pleased to crush him;

he made him sick.^r

If he^s places^t his life a guilt offering,^u

he will see offspring.

He will prolong days,

and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.

¹¹From the trouble of his life^v he will see;^w

he will be satisfied.

In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous,^x

and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.

¹²Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many,^y

and with the strong ones he will divide bounty,

because^z he poured his life out to death

and was counted with the transgressors;

and^a he was the one who bore the sin of many

and will intercede for the transgressors.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “city of the holiness”
bLiterally “do again he shall”
cLiterally “in nothing”
dLiterally “declaration of”
eLiterally “declaration of”
fLiterally “Look at me”
gHebrew “voice”
hHebrew “voice”
iLiterally “eye in eye “
jLiterally “the arm of his holiness”
kHebrew “end”
lHebrew “mouth”
aOr “And”
bOr “grew”
cOr “and”
dOr “and”
eOr “knowledgeable of”
fLiterally “hiding of face from him”
gOr “and”
hOr “And”
iOr “wounded”
jOr “of”
kOr “healing”
lHebrew “wound”
mLiterally “it was healed for us”
nOr “and”
oOr “and”
pOr “gave”
qOr “And”
rLiterally “he made sick”
sOr “you”
tOr “makes”
uOr “compensation”
vOr “soul”
wDead Sea Scrolls add “light”
xOr “right”
yOr “great”
zLiterally “Instead of that”
aOr “yet”