Isaiah 53:1-6

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53 ^(A)Who has believed what he has heard from us?^[a]
    And to whom has ^(B)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    ^(C)and like a root out of dry ground;
^(D)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
³^(E)He was despised and rejected^[b] by men,
    a man of sorrows^[c] and acquainted with^[d] grief;^[e]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[f]
    he was despised, and ^(F)we esteemed him not.

⁴^(G)Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    ^(H)smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵^(I)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    ^(J)and with his wounds we are healed.
⁶^(K)All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^(L)and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us

Isaiah 53:11-12

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¹¹Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see^[a] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ^(A)the righteous one, my servant,
    ^(B)make many to be accounted righteous,
    ^(C)and he shall bear their iniquities.
¹²^(D)Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,^[b]
    ^(E)and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,^[c]
because he poured out his soul to death
    and was numbered with the transgressors;
^(F)yet he bore the sin of many,
    and makes intercession for the transgressors.