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.
³ 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.

⁴ 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)