Isaiah 53 — Legacy Standard Bible

The Suffering Servant

53^aWho has believed our report?And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?²For He grew up before Him like a ^atender ¹shoot,And like a root out of parched ground;He has ^bno stately form or majestyThat we should look upon Him,Nor appearance that we should desire Him.³He was ^adespised and forsaken of men,A man of ¹sorrows and ^bacquainted with ²grief;And like one from whom men hide their faceHe was ^cdespised, and we did not ^desteem Him.⁴Surely our ¹griefs He Himself ²^,^abore,And our ³sorrows He ⁴carried;Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,⁵Smitten of ^bGod, and afflicted.⁵But He was ¹pierced through for ^aour transgressions,He was crushed for ^bour iniquities;The ^cchastening for our peace fell upon Him,And by ^dHis ²wounds we are healed.⁶All of us like sheep have gone astray,Each of us has turned to his own way;But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us allTo ¹fall on Him.⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted,Yet He did not ^aopen His mouth;^bLike a lamb that is led to slaughter,And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,So He did not open His mouth.⁸By oppression and judgment He was taken away;And as for His generation, who consideredThat He was cut off out of the land of ¹the living,^aThat for the transgression of my people, striking was due to Him?⁹So His grave was assigned with wicked men,Yet He was with a ^arich man in His death,^bBecause He had ^cdone no violence,Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.¹⁰But ¹Yahweh was pleasedTo ^acrush Him, ²^,^bputting Him to grief;If You would place His soul as a guilt ^coffering,He will see ^dHis seed,He will prolong His days,And the ³good ^epleasure of Yahweh will succeed in His hand.¹¹As a result of the ¹anguish of His soul,He will ^asee ²it and be satisfied;By His ^bknowledge the Righteous One,My Servant, will ³justify the many,As He will ^cbear their iniquities.¹²Therefore, I will divide for Him a ^aportion with the many,And He will divide the spoil with the strong;Because He poured out ^bHis soul to death,And was ^cnumbered with the transgressors;Yet He Himself ¹^,^dbore the sin of many,And interceded for the transgressors.