Isaiah 53:2-11

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²For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    ^(A)and like a root out of dry ground;
^(B)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
³^(C)He was despised and rejected^[a] by men,
    a man of sorrows^[b] and acquainted with^[c] grief;^[d]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[e]
    he was despised, and ^(D)we esteemed him not.

⁴^(E)Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    ^(F)smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵^(G)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    ^(H)and with his wounds we are healed.
⁶^(I)All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^(J)and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    ^(K)yet he opened not his mouth;
^(L)like a ^(M)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he opened not his mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
    and as for his generation, ^(N)who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
    stricken for the transgression of my people?
⁹And they made his grave with the wicked
    ^(O)and with a rich man in his death,
although^[f] ^(P)he had done no violence,
    and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet ^(Q)it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
    he has put him to grief;^[g]
^(R)when his soul makes^[h] an offering for guilt,
    he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^(S)the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
¹¹Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see^[i] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ^(T)the righteous one, my servant,
    ^(U)make many to be accounted righteous,
    ^(V)and he shall bear their iniquities.