²¹ Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(A)
Has it not been told^(B) you from the beginning?^(C)
    Have you not understood^(D) since the earth was founded?^(E)
22 He sits enthroned^(F) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(G)
He stretches out the heavens^(H) like a canopy,^(I)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(J) to live in.^(K)
23 He brings princes^(L) to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.^(M)
24 No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(N) in the ground,
than he blows^(O) on them and they wither,^(P)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(Q)

²⁵ “To whom will you compare me?^(R)
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.^(S)
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:^(T)
    Who created^(U) all these?
He who brings out the starry host^(V) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,^(W)
    not one of them is missing.^(X)

²⁷ Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?^(Y)
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(Z)
The Lord is the everlasting^(AA) God,
    the Creator^(AB) of the ends of the earth.^(AC)
He will not grow tired or weary,^(AD)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.^(AE)
29 He gives strength^(AF) to the weary^(AG)
    and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men^(AH) stumble and fall;^(AI)
31 but those who hope^(AJ) in the Lord
    will renew their strength.^(AK)
They will soar on wings like eagles;^(AL)
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.^(AM)

¹⁸ Who is a God^(A) like you,
    who pardons sin^(B) and forgives^(C) the transgression
    of the remnant^(D) of his inheritance?^(E)
You do not stay angry^(F) forever
    but delight to show mercy.^(G)
19 You will again have compassion on us;
    you will tread our sins underfoot
    and hurl all our iniquities^(H) into the depths of the sea.^(I)

²² “My people are fools;^(A)
    they do not know me.^(B)
They are senseless children;
    they have no understanding.^(C)
They are skilled in doing evil;^(D)
    they know not how to do good.”^(E)

53 Who has believed our message^(A)
    and to whom has the arm^(B) of the Lord been revealed?^(C)
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,^(D)
    and like a root^(E) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance^(F) that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,^(G) and familiar with pain.^(H)
Like one from whom people hide^(I) their faces
    he was despised,^(J) and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,^(K)
yet we considered him punished by God,^(L)
    stricken by him, and afflicted.^(M)
5 But he was pierced^(N) for our transgressions,^(O)
    he was crushed^(P) for our iniquities;
the punishment^(Q) that brought us peace^(R) was on him,
    and by his wounds^(S) we are healed.^(T)
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,^(U)
    each of us has turned to our own way;^(V)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity^(W) of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed^(X) and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;^(Y)
he was led like a lamb^(Z) to the slaughter,^(AA)
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
⁸ By oppression^[a] and judgment^(AB) he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;^(AC)
    for the transgression^(AD) of my people he was punished.^[b]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,^(AE)
    and with the rich^(AF) in his death,
though he had done no violence,^(AG)
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.^(AH)

¹⁰ Yet it was the Lord’s will^(AI) to crush^(AJ) him and cause him to suffer,^(AK)
    and though the Lord makes^[c] his life an offering for sin,^(AL)
he will see his offspring^(AM) and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper^(AN) in his hand.
¹¹ After he has suffered,^(AO)
    he will see the light^(AP) of life^[d] and be satisfied^[e];
by his knowledge^[f] my righteous servant^(AQ) will justify^(AR) many,
    and he will bear their iniquities.^(AS)
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,^[g](AT)
    and he will divide the spoils^(AU) with the strong,^[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,^(AV)
    and was numbered with the transgressors.^(AW)
For he bore^(AX) the sin of many,^(AY)
    and made intercession^(AZ) for the transgressors.