Chapter 53
1 Who has believed our message ? To whom has Yahweh ’s arm been revealed ?
2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant , and as a root out of dry ground . He has no good looks or majesty . When we see him , there is no beauty that we should desire him .
3 He was despised and rejected by men , a man of suffering and acquainted with disease . He was despised as one from whom men hide their face ; and we didn’t respect him .
4 Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued , struck by God, and afflicted .
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions . He was crushed for our iniquities . The punishment that brought our peace was on him ; and by his wounds we are healed .
6 All we like sheep have gone astray . Everyone has turned to his own way ; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all .
7 He was oppressed , yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth . As a lamb that is led to the slaughter , and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent , so he didn’t open his mouth .
8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment . As for his generation , who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people ?
9 They made his grave with the wicked , and with a rich man in his death , although he had done no violence , nor was any deceit in his mouth .
10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him . He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring . He will prolong his days and Yahweh ’s pleasure will prosper in his hand .
11 After the suffering of his soul , he will see the light and be satisfied . My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself ; and he will bear their iniquities .
12 Therefore I will give him a portion with the great . He will divide the plunder with the strong , because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors ; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors .