15 so he will sprinkle(A) many nations,[a]
    and kings(B) will shut their mouths(C) because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
    and what they have not heard, they will understand.(D)

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

Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,(O)
yet we considered him punished by God,(P)
    stricken by him, and afflicted.(Q)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:15 Or so will many nations be amazed at him (see also Septuagint)

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

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.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(A)
    each of us has turned to our own way;(B)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity(C) of us all.

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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.

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