³ He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering^[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces^[b]
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.^(A)

⁷ It is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
    that shame has covered my face.^(A)
8 I have become a stranger to my kindred,
    an alien to my mother’s children.^(B)

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