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The Suffering Servant

13 See, my servant shall prosper;
    he shall be exalted and lifted up
    and shall be very high.(A)
14 Just as there were many who were astonished at him[a]
    —so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of mortals—(B)
15 so he shall startle[b] many nations;
    kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
    and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.(C)

53 Who has believed what we have heard?
    And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?(D)
For he grew up before him like a young plant
    and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.(E)
He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering[c] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces[d]
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.(F)

Footnotes

  1. 52.14 Syr Tg: Heb you
  2. 52.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 53.3 Or a man of sorrows
  4. 53.3 Or as one who hides his face from us