The Suffering Servant
1 Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a tender 53:2 Lit sucklingshoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
3 He was despised and abandoned by men,
A man of 53:3 Lit painsgreat pain and familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was despised, and we had no regard for Him.
4 However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by God, and humiliated.
5 But He was 53:5 Or woundedpierced for our offenses,
He was crushed for our wrongdoings;
The punishment for our 53:5 Or peacewell-being was laid upon Him,
And by His wounds we are healed.