Isaiah 53

(700 BC )
a man of sorrows, and familiar with
bitter suffering. Like one from
whom men hide their faces he was
(5)But he was pierced for our and by his stripes we are healed.
transgressions,
He was oppressed and afflicted, though he had done no violence,
yet he did not open his mouth; nor was any deceit in his mouth.
he was led like a lamb to the (10)Yet it was the LORD's will to
despised, and we esteemed him not. slaughter, and as a sheep before crush him and cause him to suffer,
Who has believed our message
(1)
and to whom has the arm of the her shearers is silent, so he did
LORD been revealed? (2) He grew not open his mouth.
up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.

(6) Weall, like sheep, have gone astray,

each of us has turned to his own way;
and though the LORD makes
his life a guilt offering, he will
see his offspring and prolong his
By oppression and judgment
(8)
days, and the will of the LORD
Surely he took up our infirmities
(4) will prosper in his hand. (11)
and carried our sorrows, he was taken away. And who
can speak of his descendants? After the suffering of his soul,
For he was cut off from the land he will see the light of life and
of the living; for the be satisfied; by his knowledge
transgression of my people he my righteous servant will justify
He had no many, and he will bear their
and the LORD has laid on him was stricken. iniquities. (12) Therefore I will
beauty or
the iniquity of us all. give him a portion among the
majesty to
attract us great, and he will divide the
to him, spoils with the strong, because
nothing in he poured out his life unto death,
his appear-
ance that he was crushed for our
we should iniquities; the punishment that
desire him. brought us peace was upon him,
(3) He was despised and rejected
yet we considered him stricken by
by men, God, smitten by him, and afflicted. He was assigned a grave with
(9)

the wicked, and with the rich in

his death,
and was numbered with the
transgressors. For he bore the sin of
many, and
made inter-
cession for
the trans-
gressors.

Isaiah 53