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 Who has believed what he has heard from us?^[a]
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
² For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected^[b]by men;
a man of sorrows,^[c] and acquainted with^[d] grief;^[e]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[f]
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
⁶ 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.

⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
⁹ And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;^[g]
when his soul makes^[h] an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
¹¹ Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see^[i] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
¹² Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,^[j]
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,^[k]
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Footnotes:

1. Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
2. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
3. Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
4. Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
5. Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
6. Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us
7. Isaiah 53:10 Or he has made him sick
8. Isaiah 53:10 Or when you make his soul
9. Isaiah 53:11 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll he shall see light
10. Isaiah 53:12 Or with the great
11. Isaiah 53:12 Or with the numerous

Cross references:

1. Isaiah 53:1 : Cited John 12:38; Rom. 10:16
2. Isaiah 53:1 : See ch. 51:9
3. Isaiah 53:2 : ch. 11:1
4. Isaiah 53:2 : [ch. 52:14]
5. Isaiah 53:3 : ch. 49:7; [Ps. 22:6; Mark 9:12]
6. Isaiah 53:3 : [John 1:10, 11]
7. Isaiah 53:4 : [Matt. 8:17]
8. Isaiah 53:4 : Ps. 69:26
9. Isaiah 53:5 : [Rom. 4:25]
10. Isaiah 53:5 : Cited 1 Pet. 2:24
11. Isaiah 53:6 : Cited 1 Pet. 2:25; [Jer. 50:6, 17]
12. Isaiah 53:6 : 2 Cor. 5:21; [ver. 10; Col. 2:14]
13. Isaiah 53:7 : Matt. 26:63; Mark 14:61; John 19:9; 1 Pet. 2:23
14. Isaiah 53:7 : Cited Acts 8:32
15. Isaiah 53:7 : [Jer. 11:19]
16. Isaiah 53:8 : ch. 57:1
17. Isaiah 53:9 : Matt. 27:57, 60
18. Isaiah 53:9 : Cited 1 Pet. 2:22; [Heb. 4:15; 1 John 3:5]
19. Isaiah 53:10 : [ver. 4]
20. Isaiah 53:10 : [ver. 6]
21. Isaiah 53:10 : [ch. 44:28]
22. Isaiah 53:11 : [1 John 2:1]
23. Isaiah 53:11 : Acts 13:39; Rom. 5:18, 19
24. Isaiah 53:11 : [ver. 5]
25. Isaiah 53:12 : ch. 52:13; [Phil. 2:9]
26. Isaiah 53:12 : [Col. 2:15]
27. Isaiah 53:12 : ver. 6, 8, 10