受苦的仆人

53 谁相信我们所传的呢?

耶和华的大能向谁彰显过呢?
祂像嫩芽一样在耶和华面前长大,
像生长在旱地里的根。
祂没有轩昂俊美的外表可以吸引我们,
没有令我们羡慕的容貌。
祂被藐视,遭人厌弃,
饱受痛苦,历尽忧患。
人们对祂不屑一顾,
我们也不尊重祂。

其实祂担当了我们的忧患,
背负了我们的痛苦。
我们却以为是上帝责罚、
击打、苦待祂。
谁知祂是因我们的过犯而被刺透,
因我们的罪恶而被压伤。
我们因祂所受的刑罚而得到平安,
因祂所受的鞭伤而得到医治。
我们都像迷路的羊,
各人偏行己路,
但上帝却让祂承担我们众人的罪恶。
祂遭欺压、受痛苦,
却默然不语,
像被人牵去宰杀的羔羊,
又如在剪毛人手下一声不吭的绵羊。
祂被逮捕,受审判,被处死。
祂那个世代的人谁会想到祂受鞭打、
从世上被除去是因为我百姓的过犯呢?
虽然祂没有做过残暴之事,
口中也没有诡诈,
人却将祂与恶人同葬,
祂死后葬在富人的墓穴。

10 然而,祂被压伤、
受痛苦是耶和华的旨意;
祂的性命作了赎罪祭[a]
祂必看见自己的后裔,
祂必长久活着。
耶和华的旨意必在祂手中实现。
11 祂必看见自己劳苦的成果,
并心满意足。
耶和华说:“我公义的仆人必凭祂的知识使许多人被算为义人,
祂要担当他们的罪恶。
12 我要使祂与伟人同享尊荣,
跟强者同分战利品,
因为祂奉献了自己的生命。
祂被列在罪犯中,
却担当了许多人的罪,
又为罪人代求。”

Footnotes

  1. 53:10 祂的性命作了赎罪祭”或译“耶和华以祂的性命作赎罪祭”。
Book name not found: 以赛亚书 for the version: 1894 Scrivener New Testament.

53 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.