The Suffering Servant
1 Who has believed our message?
To whom has the arm of the Lord 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 illness.
He was despised as one from whom men hide their face,
and we did not 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 of us, like sheep, have gone astray.
Everyone has turned to his own way,
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed,
yet when he was afflicted he did not open his mouth.
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment.
As for his generation,
who considered that he was cut off from of the land of the living
and struck for the disobedience of my people?
A Grave Assigned
9 They assigned his grave among the wicked,
but with the rich at his death,
although he had committed no violence,
nor did any deceit come from his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
He has caused him to suffer.
When you make him an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring.
He will prolong his days
and the Lord’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 life unto death
and was counted among sinners,
yet he bore the sins of many
and made intercession for the sinners.