Isaiah 53

New King James Version

The Sin-Bearing Messiah

53 Who ^(A)has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no ^[a]form or ^[b]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no ^[c]beauty that we should desire Him.
³^(B)He is despised and ^[d]rejected by men,
A Man of ^[e]sorrows and ^(C)acquainted with ^[f]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and ^(D)we did not esteem Him.

⁴Surely ^(E)He has borne our ^[g]griefs
And carried our ^[h]sorrows;
Yet we ^[i]esteemed Him stricken,
^[j]Smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵But He was ^(F)wounded^[k] for our transgressions,
He was ^[l]bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His ^(G)stripes^[m] we are healed.
⁶All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord ^[n]has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet ^(H)He opened not His mouth;
^(I)He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
⁸He was ^(J)taken from ^[o]prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For ^(K)He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
⁹^(L)And ^[p]they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any ^(M)deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to ^[q]bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul ^(N)an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
¹¹^[r]He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge ^(O)My righteous ^(P)Servant shall ^(Q)justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
¹²^(R)Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
^(S)And He shall divide the ^[s]spoil with the strong,
Because He ^(T)poured out His soul unto death,
And He was ^(U)numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And ^(V)made intercession for the transgressors.

Footnotes

Isaiah 53:2 Stately form
Isaiah 53:2 splendor
Isaiah 53:2 Lit. appearance
Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness
Isaiah 53:4 Lit. sicknesses
Isaiah 53:4 Lit. pains
Isaiah 53:4 reckoned
Isaiah 53:4 Struck down
Isaiah 53:5 Or pierced through
Isaiah 53:5 crushed
Isaiah 53:5 Blows that cut in
Isaiah 53:6 Lit. has caused to land on Him
Isaiah 53:8 confinement
Isaiah 53:9 Lit. he or He
Isaiah 53:10 crush
Isaiah 53:11 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX From the labor of His soul He shall see light
Isaiah 53:12 plunder

Isaiah 61

New King James Version

The Good News of Salvation

61 “The ^(A)Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord ^(B)has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me ^(C)to ^[a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim ^(D)liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
²^(E)To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And ^(F)the day of vengeance of our God;
^(G)To comfort all who mourn,
³To ^[b]console those who mourn in Zion,
^(H)To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
^(I)The planting of the Lord, ^(J)that He may be glorified.”

⁴And they shall ^(K)rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
⁵^(L)Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
⁶^(M)But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
^(N)You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.
⁷^(O)Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

⁸“For ^(P)I, the Lord, love justice;
^(Q)I hate robbery ^[c]for burnt offering;
I will direct their work in truth,
^(R)And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
⁹Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
^(S)That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”

¹⁰^(T)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For ^(U)He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
^(V)As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
¹¹For as the earth brings forth its bud,
As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So the Lord God will cause ^(W)righteousness and ^(X)praise to spring forth before all the nations.