Isaiah 51:14-53:5

English Standard Version

¹⁴^(A)He who is bowed down shall speedily be released;
    he shall not die and go down ^(B)to the pit,
    neither shall his bread be lacking.
¹⁵I am the Lord your God,
    ^(C)who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
    the Lord of hosts is his name.
¹⁶^(D)And I have put my words in your mouth
    ^(E)and covered you in the shadow of my hand,
^(F)establishing^[a] the heavens
    and ^(G)laying the foundations of the earth,
    and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

¹⁷^(H)Wake yourself, wake yourself,
    stand up, O Jerusalem,
^(I)you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
    the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
    the bowl, ^(J)the cup of staggering.
¹⁸^(K)There is none to guide her
    among all the sons she has borne;
there is none to take her by the hand
    among all the sons she has brought up.
¹⁹^(L)These two things have happened to you—
    who will console you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
    who will comfort you?^[b]
²⁰^(M)Your sons have fainted;
    they lie at the head of every street
    like an ^(N)antelope ^(O)in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
    the rebuke of your God.

²¹^(P)Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,
    who are drunk, but not with wine:
²²Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
    your God ^(Q)who pleads the cause of his people:
“Behold, I have taken from your hand ^(R)the cup of staggering;
the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
²³^(S)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
    ^(T)who have said to you,
    ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and ^(U)you have made your back like the ground
    and like the street for them to pass over.”

The Lord's Coming Salvation

52 ^(V)Awake, awake,
    put on your strength, O Zion;
^(W)put on your beautiful garments,
    O Jerusalem, ^(X)the holy city;
^(Y)for there shall no more come into you
    the uncircumcised and the unclean.
²^(Z)Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
    be seated, O Jerusalem;
^(AA)loose the bonds from your neck,
    O captive daughter of Zion.

³For thus says the Lord: ^(AB)“You were sold for nothing, and ^(AC)you shall be redeemed without money.” ⁴For thus says the Lord God: ^(AD)“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.^[c] ⁵Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and ^(AE)continually all the day my name is despised. ⁶Therefore my people shall know my name. ^(AF)Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”

⁷^(AG)How beautiful upon the mountains
    are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, ^(AH)who brings good news of happiness,
    who publishes salvation,
    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
⁸The voice of ^(AI)your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
    together they sing for joy;
^(AJ)for eye to eye they see
    the return of the Lord to Zion.
⁹^(AK)Break forth together into singing,
    ^(AL)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for ^(AM)the Lord has comforted his people;
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰^(AN)The Lord has bared his holy arm
    before the eyes of all the nations,
^(AO)and all the ends of the earth shall see
    the salvation of our God.

¹¹^(AP)Depart, depart, go out from there;
    touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
    ^(AQ)you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
¹²For you shall not ^(AR)go out in haste,
    and you shall not go in flight,
^(AS)for the Lord will go before you,
    ^(AT)and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions

¹³Behold, ^(AU)my servant shall act wisely;^[d]
    he shall be high and lifted up,
    and shall be exalted.
¹⁴As many were astonished at you—
    ^(AV)his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
¹⁵so ^(AW)shall he sprinkle^[e] many nations.
    ^(AX)Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
^(AY)for that which has not been told them they see,
    and that which they have not heard they understand.
53 ^(AZ)Who has believed what he has heard from us?^[f]
    And to whom has ^(BA)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    ^(BB)and like a root out of dry ground;
^(BC)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
³^(BD)He was despised and rejected^[g] by men,
    a man of sorrows^[h] and acquainted with^[i] grief;^[j]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[k]
    he was despised, and ^(BE)we esteemed him not.

⁴^(BF)Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    ^(BG)smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵^(BH)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    ^(BI)and with his wounds we are healed.

Footnotes

Isaiah 51:16 Or planting
Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text how shall I comfort you
Isaiah 52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late
Isaiah 52:13 Or shall prosper
Isaiah 52:15 Or startle
Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us