1 Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been
revealed? 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out
of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised, and rejected by
men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom
men hide their face he was despised; and we didn’t respect him. 4 Surely
he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him
plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our
peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and Yahweh has laid
on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was
afflicted he didn’t open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation,
who among them considered that he was cut off out of the land of the
living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke was due?
9 They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death;
although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you
shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he
shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify
many; and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the
transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.
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