1 ◄Who will believe what we will tell them about God’s servant?/Hardly anyone will believe what we will tell them about God’s servant.► [RHQ]
◄Who will see what Yahweh does by his great power?/Very few people will see what Yahweh does by his great power.► [MTY, RHQ]
2 While God watches, his servant will grow up appearing/seeming to be very insignificant/unimportant,
like a weak young plant that shoots up from a root of a tree that is growing in dry ground.
There will be nothing beautiful or majestic about him,
nothing that would cause us to want to be with him.
3 People will despise and reject him. {He will be despised and rejected.}
He will endure much pain, and he will suffer much.
Because his face will be very disfigured, people will not want to look at him;
people will despise him and think that he is not worth paying any attention to.
4 But he will be punished for the sicknesses of our souls;
he will endure great pain for us.
But we will think that he is being punished by God,
afflicted/punished for his own sins.
5 But his body will be bruised because of the evil things that we did,
wounded because of our sins.
He will be beaten in order that things will go well for our souls;
and because he will be whipped, our souls can be healed.