⁷ but emptied himself,
    taking the form of a slave,
    assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human,^(A)
8     he humbled himself
    and became obedient to the point of death—
    even death on a cross.^(B)

² For he grew up before him like a young plant
    and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.^(A)
3 He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering^[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces^[b]
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.^(B)

² I will study the way that is blameless.
    When shall I attain it?

⁷ It is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
    that shame has covered my face.^(A)
8 I have become a stranger to my kindred,
    an alien to my mother’s children.^(B)