1 Who has believed what we have heard?

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

2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,

and like a root out of dry ground;

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

and no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected* by men;

a man of sorrows,v and acquainted with grief;w

and as one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne our griefsx

and carried our sorrows;y

yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,

he was bruised for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that made us whole,

and with his stripes we are healed.