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Kalooban ni Yahweh na matulad sa isang halaman ang kanyang lingkod,
    parang ugat na natanim sa tuyong lupa.
Walang katangian o kagandahang makatawag-pansin,
    walang taglay na pang-akit para siya ay lapitan.
Hinamak siya ng mga tao at itinakwil.
    Nagdanas siya ng hapdi at hirap.
Wala man lang pumansin sa kanya.
    Binaliwala natin siya, na parang walang kabuluhan.

“Tunay(A) ngang inalis niya ang ating mga kahinaan,
    pinagaling niya ang ating mga karamdaman.
Subalit inakala nating iyo'y parusa ng Diyos sa kanya.

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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.

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)

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