Isaiah 53:2-6
New International Version
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(A)
and like a root(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance(C) that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering,(D) and familiar with pain.(E)
Like one from whom people hide(F) their faces
he was despised,(G) and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,(H)
yet we considered him punished by God,(I)
stricken by him, and afflicted.(J)
5 But he was pierced(K) for our transgressions,(L)
he was crushed(M) for our iniquities;
the punishment(N) that brought us peace(O) was on him,
and by his wounds(P) we are healed.(Q)
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(R)
each of us has turned to our own way;(S)
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity(T) of us all.
Isaiah 53:2-6
New Living Translation
2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
Footnotes
- 53:4 Or Yet it was our sicknesses he carried; / it was our diseases.
Isaiah 53:2-6
New American Standard Bible
2 For He grew up before Him like a (A)tender [a]shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has (B)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
3 He was (C)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of [b]great pain and (D)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was (E)despised, and we had no (F)regard for Him.
4 However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself (G)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by (H)God, and humiliated.
5 But He was [c]pierced for (I)our offenses,
He was crushed for (J)our wrongdoings;
The (K)punishment for our [d]well-being was laid upon Him,
And by (L)His wounds we are healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To [e]fall on Him.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 53:2 Lit suckling
- Isaiah 53:3 Lit pains
- Isaiah 53:5 Or wounded
- Isaiah 53:5 Or peace
- Isaiah 53:6 Lit encounter Him
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