The Sin-Bearing Servant

13 Behold, qMy Servant shall 4deal prudently;

rHe shall be exalted and 5extolled and be very high.

14 Just as many were astonished at you,

So His svisage 6was marred more than any man,

And His form more than the sons of men;

15 tSo shall He 7sprinkle many nations.

Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;

For uwhat had not been told them they shall see,

And what they had not heard they shall consider.

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.

9 lAnd 7they made His grave with the wicked—

But with the rich at His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was any mdeceit in His mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to 8bruise Him;

He has put Him to grief.

When You make His soul nan offering for sin,

He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,

And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

11 9He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.

By His knowledge oMy righteous pServant shall qjustify many,

For He shall bear their iniquities.

12 rTherefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,

sAnd He shall divide the 1spoil with the strong,

Because He tpoured out His soul unto death,

And He was unumbered with the transgressors,

And He bore the sin of many,

And vmade intercession for the transgressors.

A Perpetual Covenant of Peace

54 “Sing, O abarren,

You who have not borne!

Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,

You who have not labored with child!

For more are the children of the desolate

Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.

2 “Enlarge bthe place of your tent,

And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;

Do not spare;

Lengthen your cords,

And strengthen your stakes.

3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,

And your descendants will cinherit the nations,

And make the desolate cities inhabited.

4 “Do dnot fear, for you will not be ashamed;

Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;

For you will forget the shame of your youth,

And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

5 eFor your Maker is your husband,

The Lord of hosts is His name;

And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;

He is called fthe God of the whole earth.

6 For the Lord ghas called you

Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,

Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”

Says your God.

7 “For ha mere moment I have forsaken you,

But with great mercies iI will gather you.

8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;

jBut with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”

Says the Lord, your Redeemer.

9 “For this is like the waters of kNoah to Me;

For as I have sworn

That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,

So have I sworn

That I would not be angry with lyou, nor rebuke you.

10 For mthe mountains shall depart

And the hills be removed,

nBut My kindness shall not depart from you,

Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”

Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

11 “O you afflicted one,

Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,

Behold, I will lay your stones with ocolorful gems,

And lay your foundations with sapphires.

12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,

Your gates of crystal,

And all your walls of precious stones.

13 All your children shall be ptaught by the Lord,

And qgreat shall be the peace of your children.

14 In righteousness you shall be established;

You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;

And from terror, for it shall not come near you.

15 Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.

Whoever assembles against you shall rfall for your sake.

16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith

Who blows the coals in the fire,

Who brings forth an 1instrument for his work;

And I have created the 2spoiler to destroy.

17 No weapon formed against you shall sprosper,

And every tongue which rises against you in judgment

You shall condemn.

This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,

tAnd their righteousness is from Me,”

Says the Lord.