For He shall grow up before Him as a
tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should
desire Him.
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from
Him;
He was despised, and we did not
esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our
transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was
upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own
way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the
iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and He was
afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is
silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from
judgement,
and who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of
the living;
For the transgressions of My people
He was stricken.
And they made His grave with the
wicked-
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering
for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall
prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD shall
prosper in His hand.
He shall see the labor of His soul,
and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous
Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide Him a portion
with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the
strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto
death,
And He was numbered with the
transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the
transgressors.
Isaiah 53
