1 Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?

2 For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

5 But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.

1 Chi ha creduto a quel che noi abbiamo annunziato? e a chi è stato rivelato il braccio dellEterno?

2 Egli è venuto su dinanzi a lui come un rampollo, come una radice chesce da un arido suolo; non avea forma né bellezza da attirare i nostri sguardi, né apparenza, da farcelo desiderare.

3 Disprezzato e abbandonato dagli uomini, uomo di dolore, familiare con il patire, pari a colui dinanzi al quale ciascuno si nasconde la faccia, era spregiato, e noi non ne facemmo stima alcuna.

4 E, nondimeno, eran le nostre malattie chegli portava, erano i nostri dolori quelli di cui sera caricato; noi lo reputavamo colpito, battuto da Dio, ed umiliato!

5 Ma egli è stato trafitto a motivo delle nostre trasgressioni, fiaccato a motivo delle nostre iniquità; il castigo, per cui abbiam pace, è stato su lui, e per le sue lividure noi abbiamo avuto guarigione.