⁷ How beautiful on the mountains^(A)
    are the feet of those who bring good news,^(B)
who proclaim peace,^(C)
    who bring good tidings,
    who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
    “Your God reigns!”^(D)

¹⁵ Look, there on the mountains,
    the feet of one who brings good news,^(A)
    who proclaims peace!^(B)
Celebrate your festivals,^(C) Judah,
    and fulfill your vows.
No more will the wicked invade you;^(D)
    they will be completely destroyed.^[a]

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.

⁴ Do not let my heart^(A) be drawn to what is evil
    so that I take part in wicked deeds^(B)
along with those who are evildoers;
    do not let me eat their delicacies.^(C)

³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,^(A) and familiar with pain.^(B)
Like one from whom people hide^(C) their faces
    he was despised,^(D) and we held him in low esteem.

⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray,^(A)
    each of us has turned to our own way;^(B)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity^(C) of us all.

“‘They misled you and overcame you—
    those trusted friends^(B) of yours.
Your feet are sunk in the mud;^(C)
    your friends have deserted you.’