‏ Isaiah 53

The Suffering Servant

1Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
2For He grew up before Him like a tender
Lit suckling
shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should desire Him.
3He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of
Or pains
sorrows and acquainted with
Or sickness
grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4Surely our
Or sickness
griefs He Himself
Or carried
bore,
And our
Or pains
sorrows He
Or bore
carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Or Struck down by
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But He was
Or wounded
pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our peace fell upon Him,
And by His
Lit wound
wounds we are healed.
6All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us all
To
Lit encounter Him
fall on Him.
7He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
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.
8By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of
Or life
the living,
That for the transgression of my people, striking was due to Him?
9So His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10But
Or it was the desire of Yahweh, cf. Ps 40:6
Yahweh was pleased
To crush Him,
Or He put Him to grief; lit He made Him sick
putting Him to grief;
If You would place His soul as a guilt offering,
He will see His seed,
He will prolong His days,
And the
Or will of, desire of; cf. Ps 40:6
good pleasure of Yahweh will succeed in His hand.
11As a result of the
Or toilsome labor
anguish of His soul,
He will see
Or light
it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will
Or declare the many righteous, cf. 53:11a; 5:23
justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
12Therefore, I will divide for Him a portion with the many,
And He will divide the spoil with the strong;
Because He poured out His soul to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself
Or carried
bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.
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