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.
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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:2 Lit suckling
  2. Isaiah 53:3 Lit pains

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.
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.

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