Isaiah 53:1-5

Common English Bible

53 Who can believe what we have heard,
    and for whose sake has the Lord’s arm^[a] been revealed?
² He grew up like a young plant before us,^[b]
    like a root from dry ground.
He possessed no splendid form for us to see,
    no desirable appearance.
³ He was despised and avoided by others;
    a man who suffered, who knew sickness well.
Like someone from whom people hid their faces,
    he was despised, and we didn’t think about him.

⁴ It was certainly our sickness that he carried,
    and our sufferings that he bore,
    but we thought him afflicted,
    struck down by God and tormented.
⁵ He was pierced because of our rebellions
    and crushed because of our crimes.
    He bore the punishment that made us whole;
    by his wounds we are healed.