53 Who has believed what we have heard?[a]
And to whom has the arm of the Lord(A) been revealed?(B)
2 He grew up before him like a young plant(C)
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at him,
no appearance that we should desire him.(D)
3 He was despised and rejected by men,(E)
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.(F)
He was like someone people turned away from;[b]
he was despised, and we didn’t value him.
4 Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,
and he carried our pains;(G)
but we in turn regarded him stricken,
struck down by God,(H) and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced because of our rebellion,(I)
crushed because of our iniquities;(J)
punishment(K) for our peace was on him,
and we are healed by his wounds.(L)
6 We all went astray like sheep;(M)
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished him
for[c] the iniquity(N) of us all.(O)
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not open his mouth.(P)
8 He was taken away because of oppression and judgment,
and who considered his fate?[d]
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
but he was with a rich man at his death,(Q)
because he had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully.(R)
10 Yet the Lord was pleased(S) to crush him severely.[e](T)
When[f] you make him a guilt offering,(U)
he will see his seed, he will prolong his days,
and by his hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.(V)
11 After his anguish,
he will see light[g] and be satisfied.
By his knowledge,
my righteous(W) servant(X) will justify many,(Y)
and he will carry their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him[h] the many as a portion,
and he will receive[i] the mighty as spoil,
because he willingly submitted to death,(Z)
and was counted among the rebels;(AA)
yet he bore the sin of many(AB)
and interceded for the rebels.(AC)
Footnotes
- 53:1 Or believed our report
- 53:3 Lit And like a hiding of faces from him
- 53:6 Or has placed on him; lit with
- 53:8 Or and as for his generation, who considered him?
- 53:10 Or him; he made him sick.
- 53:10 Or If
- 53:11 DSS, LXX; MT omits light
- 53:12 Or him with
- 53:12 Or receive with
Cross references
- 53:1 : Is 30:30; 40:10; 48:14; 51:9; 52:10; Lk 1:51; Ac 13:17
- 53:1 : Jn 12:38; Rm 10:16
- 53:2 : Is 11:1
- 53:2 : Is 52:14
- 53:3 : Ps 22:6; Is 49:7; Lk 18:31–33
- 53:3 : Mk 8:31; Jn 1:10–11; Heb 4:15
- 53:4 : Mt 8:17; 1Pt 2:21
- 53:4 : Ps 69:26
- 53:5 : Is 53:8; Rm 4:25; 1Co 15:3; Heb 9:28
- 53:5 : Is 1:4
- 53:5 : Jr 2:30; Zph 3:2; Heb 5:8
- 53:5–6 : 1Pt 2:24–25
- 53:6 : Mt 18:12
- 53:6 : Is 13:11
- 53:6 : 2Co 5:21; Col 2:14
- 53:7 : Jr 11:19; Mt 26:63; 27:12–14; Lk 23:9; Jn 19:9; Ac 8:32–33; 1Pt 2:23
- 53:9 : Mt 27:57–60
- 53:9 : Heb 4:15; 1Pt 2:22; 1Jn 3:5
- 53:10 : Is 44:28; 55:11
- 53:10 : Dt 29:22; Is 17:11
- 53:10 : Lv 5:1–19
- 53:10 : Is 46:10
- 53:11 : 1Jn 2:1
- 53:11 : Is 42:1
- 53:11 : Ac 13:39; Rm 5:18–19
- 53:12 : Mt 26:42; Jn 10:14–18; Php 2:6–8
- 53:12 : Lk 22:37
- 53:12 : Heb 9:28
- 53:12 : Lk 23:34; Rm 8:34; Heb 7:25