Isaiah 53:1–8

⁵³Who has believed what we have heard?

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

²For he grew up before him like a young plant

and like a root out of dry ground;

he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,

nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.^*

³He was despised and rejected by others;

a man of suffering^k and acquainted with infirmity,

and as one from whom others hide their faces^l

he was despised, and we held him of no account.^*

⁴Surely he has borne our infirmities

and carried our diseases,

yet we accounted him stricken,

struck down by God, and afflicted.^*

⁵But he was wounded for our transgressions,

crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the punishment that made us whole,

and by his bruises we are healed.^*

⁶All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have all turned to our own way,

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.^*

⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth;

like a lamb that is led to the slaughter

and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he did not open his mouth.^*

⁸By a perversion of justice he was taken away.

Who could have imagined his future?

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

stricken for the transgression of my people.^*