Isaiah 53

¹Who has believed our report? And the arm of the LORD, to whom has it been revealed?

²He grew up like a tender shoot before him, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form and no majesty that we should look at him, and no appearance that we should desire him.

³He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and like one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴Surely our sicknesses he himself bore, and our sorrows he carried; yet we considered him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

⁵But he was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.

⁶All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a ewe before her shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

⁸By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

⁹And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet the LORD was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. When you make his soul a guilt offering, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹Out of the travail of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant shall justify many, and their iniquities he shall bear.

¹²Therefore I will give him a portion with the many, and with the strong he shall divide the spoil; because he poured out his soul unto death, and with the transgressors he was numbered; yet he bore the sin of many, and for the transgressors he made intercession.