53 Who ahas believed our report?

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

2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,

And as a root out of dry ground.

He has no 1form or 2comeliness;

And when we see Him,

There is no 3beauty that we should desire Him.

3 bHe is despised and 4rejected by men,

A Man of 5sorrows and cacquainted with 6grief.

And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;

He was despised, and dwe did not esteem Him.

4 Surely eHe has borne our 7griefs

And carried our 8sorrows;

Yet we 9esteemed Him stricken,

1Smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But He was fwounded 2for our transgressions,

He was 3bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His gstripes 4we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned, every one, to his own way;

And the Lord 5has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet hHe opened not His mouth;

iHe was led as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,

So He opened not His mouth.

8 He was jtaken from 6prison and from judgment,

And who will declare His generation?

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

For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.