^3 (A)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 ^(B)we esteemed him not.

⁷ For it is ^(A)for your sake that I have borne reproach,
    that dishonor has covered my face.
⁸ I have become ^(B)a stranger to my brothers,
    an alien to my mother's sons.

² The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and against his ^(A)Anointed, saying,
³ “Let us ^(B)burst their bonds apart
    and cast away their cords from us.”