Isaiah 53:2-4

Amplified Bible

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For He [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender shoot (plant),
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has no stately form or majestic splendor
That we would look at Him,
Nor [handsome] appearance that we would ^[a]be attracted to Him.
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He was despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;
And like One from whom men hide their faces
He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.

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But [in fact] He has borne our griefs,
And He has carried our sorrows and pains;
Yet we [ignorantly] assumed that He was stricken,
Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated [by Him].^(A)

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Isaiah 53:2 Lit take pleasure in.

Isaiah 53:2-4

New International Version

²He 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.
³He 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.