Isaiah 53

1Who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

2For 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 appearance that we should desire him.

3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and acquainted with sickness; and like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.

4Surely he has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains; yet we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.

5But he was pierced because of our transgressions; he was crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his wound we are healed.

6All of us, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb led to the slaughter, and like a ewe silent before her shearers, so he did not open his mouth.

8By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

9And they assigned his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his deaths, although he had done no violence, and no deceit was in his mouth.

10Yet it pleased Yahweh to crush him; he made him sick. If his life makes a guilt offering, he will see offspring, he will prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh will prosper in his hand.

11From the anguish of his soul he will see light and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

12Therefore I will allot him a portion among the many, and he will divide plunder with the strong, because he poured out his life to death and was numbered with transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many and intercedes for transgressors.