⁶ I offered my back to those who beat^(A) me,
    my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;^(B)
I did not hide my face
    from mocking and spitting.^(C)

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)
5 But he was pierced^(K) for our transgressions,^(L)
    he was crushed^(M) for our iniquities;
the punishment^(N) that brought us peace^(O) was on him,
    and by his wounds^(P) we are healed.^(Q)

¹⁷ All my bones are on display;
    people stare^(A) and gloat over me.^(B)

⁶ But I am a worm^(A) and not a man,
    scorned by everyone,^(B) despised^(C) by the people.
⁷ All who see me mock me;^(D)
    they hurl insults,^(E) shaking their heads.^(F)