The Suffering Servant
53 (A)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 (B)tender shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has (C)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
3 He was (D)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of great pain and (E)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was (F)despised, and we had no (G)regard for Him.
4 However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself (H)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by (I)God, and humiliated.
5 But He was pierced for (J)our offenses,
He was crushed for (K)our wrongdoings;
The (L)punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him,
And by (M)His wounds we are healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
Yet He did not (N)open His mouth;
(O)Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
8 By 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
(P)For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?
9 And His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a (Q)rich man in His death,
(R)Because He had (S)done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But the Lord desired
To (T)crush Him, (U)causing Him grief;
If He renders Himself as a guilt (V)offering,
He will see (W)His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good (X)pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will (Y)see it and be satisfied;
By His (Z)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will (AA)bear their wrongdoings.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a (AB)portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His (AC)life unto death,
And was (AD)counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself (AE)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 53:2
- Isaiah 53:3
- Isaiah 53:5
- Isaiah 53:5
- Isaiah 53:6
- Isaiah 53:8
- Isaiah 53:10
- Isaiah 53:10
- Isaiah 53:10
- Isaiah 53:10
- Isaiah 53:11
- Isaiah 53:11
- Isaiah 53:12
Cross references
- Isaiah 53:1 : John 12:38; Rom 10:16
- Isaiah 53:2 : Is 11:1
- Isaiah 53:2 : Is 52:14
- Isaiah 53:3 : Ps 22:6; Is 49:7; Luke 18:31-33
- Isaiah 53:3 : Is 53:10
- Isaiah 53:3 : Mark 10:33, 34
- Isaiah 53:3 : John 1:10, 11
- Isaiah 53:4 : Matt 8:17
- Isaiah 53:4 : John 19:7
- Isaiah 53:5 : Is 53:8; Heb 9:28
- Isaiah 53:5 : Is 53:10; Rom 4:25; 1 Cor 15:3
- Isaiah 53:5 : Deut 11:2; Heb 5:8
- Isaiah 53:5 : 1 Pet 2:24, 25
- Isaiah 53:7 : Matt 26:63; 27:12-14; Mark 14:61; 15:5; Luke 23:9; John 19:9
- Isaiah 53:7 : Acts 8:32, 33; Rev 5:6
- Isaiah 53:8 : Is 53:5, 12
- Isaiah 53:9 : Matt 27:57-60
- Isaiah 53:9 : Is 42:1-3
- Isaiah 53:9 : 1 Pet 2:22
- Isaiah 53:10 : Is 53:5
- Isaiah 53:10 : Is 53:3, 4
- Isaiah 53:10 : Is 53:6, 12; John 1:29
- Isaiah 53:10 : Ps 22:30; Is 54:3; 61:9; 66:22
- Isaiah 53:10 : Is 46:10
- Isaiah 53:11 : John 10:14-18
- Isaiah 53:11 : Is 45:25; Rom 5:18, 19
- Isaiah 53:11 : Is 53:5, 6
- Isaiah 53:12 : Is 52:13; Phil 2:9-11
- Isaiah 53:12 : Matt 26:38, 39, 42
- Isaiah 53:12 : Luke 22:37
- Isaiah 53:12 : Is 53:6, 11; 2 Cor 5:21
