53 Who hath believed ^[a]our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? ² For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; ^[b]and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. ³ He was despised, and ^[c]rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with ^[d]grief: and ^[e]as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Surely he hath borne our ^[f]griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. ⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath ^[g]laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. ^8 [h]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 ^[i]living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due? ⁹ And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; ^[j]although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath ^[k]put him to grief: ^[l]when thou shalt make his soul ^[m]an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. ^11 [n]He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: ^[o]by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant ^[p]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 unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and ^[q]made intercession for the transgressors.