Isaiah 53

Christian Standard Bible

53 Who has believed what we have heard?^[a]
And to whom has the arm of the Lord^(A) been revealed?^(B)
2 He grew up before him like a young plant^(C)
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at him,
no appearance that we should desire him.^(D)
3 He was despised and rejected by men,^(E)
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.^(F)
He was like someone people turned away from;^[b]
he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

⁴ Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,
and he carried our pains;^(G)
but we in turn regarded him stricken,
struck down by God,^(H) and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced because of our rebellion,^(I)
crushed because of our iniquities;^(J)
punishment^(K) for our peace was on him,
and we are healed by his wounds.^(L)
6 We all went astray like sheep;^(M)
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished him
for^[c] the iniquity^(N) of us all.^(O)

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not open his mouth.^(P)
8 He was taken away because of oppression and judgment,
and who considered his fate?^[d]
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
⁹ He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
but he was with a rich man at his death,^(Q)
because he had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully.^(R)

¹⁰ Yet the Lord was pleased^(S) to crush him severely.^[e](T)
When^[f] you make him a guilt offering,^(U)
he will see his seed, he will prolong his days,
and by his hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.^(V)
11 After his anguish,
he will see light^[g] and be satisfied.
By his knowledge,
my righteous^(W) servant^(X) will justify many,^(Y)
and he will carry their iniquities.
¹² Therefore I will give him^[h] the many as a portion,
and he will receive^[i] the mighty as spoil,
because he willingly submitted to death,^(Z)
and was counted among the rebels;^(AA)
yet he bore the sin of many^(AB)
and interceded for the rebels.^(AC)