53 Who has believed what we have heard?[a]
And who has the arm of the Lord(A) been revealed to?(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 transgressions,(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 They[e] made His grave with the wicked
and with a rich man at His death,(Q)
although He had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully.(R)
10 Yet the Lord was pleased(S) to crush Him severely.[f](T)
When[g] You make Him a restitution 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 He will see it[h] out of His anguish,
and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.
My righteous(W) Servant(X) will justify many,(Y)
and He will carry their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give Him[i] the many as a portion,
and He will receive[j] the mighty as spoil,
because He submitted Himself 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
- Isaiah 53:1 Or believed our report
- Isaiah 53:3 Lit And like a hiding of faces from Him
- Isaiah 53:6 Or has placed on Him; lit with
- Isaiah 53:8 Or and as for His generation, who considered [Him]?
- Isaiah 53:9 DSS; MT reads He
- Isaiah 53:10 Or Him; He made Him sick.
- Isaiah 53:10 Or If
- Isaiah 53:11 DSS, LXX read see light
- Isaiah 53:12 Or Him with
- Isaiah 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