- Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
- He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
- He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
- Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
- But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
- We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
- By oppression[1] and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.[2]
- He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
- Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes[3] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
- After he has suffered, he will see the light of life[4] and be satisfied[5]; by his knowledge[6] my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
- Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[7] and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[8] because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Or 'From arrest'
- Or 'generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?'
- Hebrew 'though you make'
- Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have 'the light of life.'
- Or (with Masoretic Text) ' He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied'
- Or 'by knowledge of him'
- Or 'many'
- Or 'numerous'