Isaiah 52:13-53:8

New King James Version

The Sin-Bearing Servant

¹³Behold, ^(A)My Servant shall ^[a]deal prudently;
^(B)He shall be exalted and ^[b]extolled and be very high.
¹⁴Just as many were astonished at you,
So His ^(C)visage^[c] was marred more than any man,
And His form more than the sons of men;
¹⁵^(D)So shall He ^[d]sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For ^(E)what had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.

The Sin-Bearing Messiah

53 Who ^(F)has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no ^[e]form or ^[f]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no ^[g]beauty that we should desire Him.
³^(G)He is despised and ^[h]rejected by men,
A Man of ^[i]sorrows and ^(H)acquainted with ^[j]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and ^(I)we did not esteem Him.

⁴Surely ^(J)He has borne our ^[k]griefs
And carried our ^[l]sorrows;
Yet we ^[m]esteemed Him stricken,
^[n]Smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵But He was ^(K)wounded^[o] for our transgressions,
He was ^[p]bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His ^(L)stripes^[q] we are healed.
⁶All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord ^[r]has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet ^(M)He opened not His mouth;
^(N)He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
⁸He was ^(O)taken from ^[s]prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For ^(P)He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.