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He was oppressed and he was afflicted,
    yet he didn’t open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    as[a] a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
        so he did not open[b] his mouth.

“From detention and[c] judgment he was taken away[d]
    and who can even think about his descendants?[e]
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
    he was stricken[f] for the transgression of my people.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and as
  2. Isaiah 53:7 So 1QIsaa; MT reads does not open
  3. Isaiah 53:8 So 1QIsaa MT; 1QIsab lacks and
  4. Isaiah 53:8 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 1QIsab reads judgment they took him away
  5. Isaiah 53:8 Or future
  6. Isaiah 53:8 So 1QIsaa; MT reads living, an affliction