| 1 | Who has believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message [of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed? |
| 2 | For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness [royal, kingly pomp], that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. |
| 3 | He was despised and rejected
and
forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows
and
pains, and acquainted with grief
and
sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth
or
have any esteem for Him. |
| 4 | Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows
and
pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. |
| 5 | But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt
and
iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace
and
well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed
and
made whole. |
| 6 | All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt
and
iniquity of us all. |
| 7 | He was oppressed, [yet when] He was afflicted, He was submissive
and
opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. |
| 8 | By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living [stricken to His death] for the transgression of my [Isaiah’s] people, to whom the stroke was due? |
| 9 | And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. |
| 10 | Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief
and
made Him sick. When You
and
He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will
and
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. |
| 11 | He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul and be satisfied; by His knowledge of Himself [which He possesses and imparts to others] shall My [uncompromisingly] righteous One, My Servant, justify many
and
make many righteous (upright and in right standing with God), for He shall bear their iniquities
and
their guilt [with the consequences, says the Lord]. |
| 12 | Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers], and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty, because He poured out His life unto death, and [He let Himself] be regarded as a criminal
and
be numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore [and took away] the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors (the rebellious). |
Cross references:
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Isaiah 53:1 : John 12:38-41; Rom. 10:16.
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Isaiah 53:4 : Matt. 8:17.
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Isaiah 53:6 : I Pet. 2:24, 25.
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Isaiah 53:9 : Matt. 27:57-60; I Pet. 2:22, 23.
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Isaiah 53:12 : Luke 22:37.
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