The Suffering Servant
1 Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the Lordbeen revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has nostatelyform or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
# Nor appearance that we shouldbe attracted to Him.
3 He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely ourgriefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He waspierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-beingfellupon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lordhas caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open 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
For the transgression of my people, to whom the strokewas due?
9 His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But the Lordwas pleased
To crush Him, puttingHimto grief;
If He would render Himselfasa guilt offering,
He will seeHisoffspring,
He will prolongHisdays,
And the good pleasure of the Lordwill prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will seeit andbe satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.
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