3 People despised him and rejected him. He was a man who really suffered and who experienced the deepest pain. We treated him like someone you turn away from in disgust—we despised him and had no respect for him.
4 However, he was the one who took up our weaknesses and loaded himself down with our pain—but we assumed he was being hit, beaten, and humiliated by God. 5 But he was wounded because of our rebellious acts, he was crushed because of our guilt. He experienced the discipline that brings us peace,53:5. "Peace": often in the sense of "well-being" rather than the absence of war. In addition, the word "discipline" in this verse is more to do with training a child than punishment, as the Septuagint translators recognized. and his wounds heal us.