THE BOOK OF ISAIAH

 

Isaiah Chapter 53

1 ¶ Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

2 For he will grow up before him like a tender plant, and like a sprout from a root in dry ground: he has no form or splendor; and when we look at him, there is no glamour that we should desire him.

3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, who knew suffering: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not value him.

4 ¶ Surely he has taken on himself our pains, and carried our sorrows: yet we regarded him as condemned, struck down by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the punishment that brought us peace was upon him; and by his stripes we are healed.

6 Like sheep we have all have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was mistreated, yet he did not open his mouth: he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who at that time understood? for he was cut off from the land of the living: and struck down for his people’s sins.

9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had not committed any crime, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10 ¶ Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise him; he has caused him to suffer: and when you make him an offering for sin, he will see his seed, he will prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will succeed by his hand.

11 He will see it out of his anguish, and will be satisfied: by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many; for he will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore I will give him many people as his share, and he will divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his life in death: and lets himself be numbered with the transgressors; while he takes on himself the sins of many, and makes intercession for the those who rebel.