Isaiah 53

1Who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

2He came up before him like a sapling, like a root out of thirsty ground. He had no stately form or splendor to draw our gaze, no appearance that would make us delight in him.

3He was despised and shunned by others, a man of many pains, who knew sickness well. Like someone people hide their faces from, he was despised, and we counted him as nothing.

4Surely it was our sicknesses he bore and our pains he carried, yet we thought of him as stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

5But he was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the discipline that secured our peace was laid on him, and by his wounds healing has come to us.

6Like sheep, all of us have strayed; we have each turned to our own road, and Yahweh has brought down on him the iniquity of us all.

7He was treated harshly, and he submitted, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb brought to be slaughtered, like a ewe that falls silent in front of her shearers, he did not open his mouth.

8Through coercion and judgment he was taken away, and who of his generation gave it a thought? For he was cut off from the land of the living, struck down for my people’s transgression—the blow that was due to them.

9His grave was assigned with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, though he had done no violence and no deceit was in his mouth.

10Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. When his life is made a guilt offering, he will see offspring and live long, and Yahweh’s good pleasure will prosper by his hand.

11After the hard labor of his soul he will see, and he will be satisfied. Through his knowledge the righteous one, my servant, will justify the many, and it is he who will carry their iniquities.

12Therefore I will give him a portion among the many, and he will share the spoils with the mighty, because he emptied out his life to the point of death and was counted among the transgressors. Yet he himself bore the sin of many, and he interceded for the transgressors.