Isaiah 53:1–8

Who has believed our message^u

and to whom has the arm^v of the Lord been revealed?^w

²He grew up before him like a tender shoot,^x

and like a root^y out of dry ground.

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,

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

³He was despised and rejected by mankind,

a man of suffering,^a and familiar with pain.^b

Like one from whom people hide^c their faces

he was despised,^d and we held him in low esteem.

⁴Surely he took up our pain

and bore our suffering,^e

yet we considered him punished by God,^f

stricken by him, and afflicted.^g

⁵But he was pierced^h for our transgressions,ⁱ

he was crushed^j for our iniquities;

the punishment^k that brought us peace^l was on him,

and by his wounds^m we are healed.ⁿ

⁶We all, like sheep, have gone astray,^o

each of us has turned to our own way;^p

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity^q of us all.

⁷He was oppressed^r and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth;^s

he was led like a lamb^t to the slaughter,^u

and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,

so he did not open his mouth.

⁸By oppression^a and judgment^v he was taken away.

Yet who of his generation protested?

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

for the transgression^x of my people he was punished.^b