53 Who has believed what we have heard?
    And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?^(A)
2 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.^(B)
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.^(C)

⁴ Surely he has borne our infirmities
    and carried our diseases,
yet we accounted him stricken,
    struck down by God, and afflicted.^(D)
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
    crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
    and by his bruises we are healed.^(E)
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.^(F)

⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.^(G)
8 By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
    Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
    stricken for the transgression of my people.^(H)
9 They made his grave with the wicked
    and his tomb^[c] with the rich,^[d]
although he had done no violence,
    and there was no deceit in his mouth.^(I)

¹⁰ Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction.
When you make his life an offering for sin,^[e]
    he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.^(J)
11     Out of his anguish he shall see;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
    The righteous one,^[f] my servant, shall make many righteous,
    and he shall bear their iniquities.^(K)
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
    and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out himself to death
    and was numbered with the transgressors,
yet he bore the sin of many
    and made intercession for the transgressors.^(L)

⁴ Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
    do not be discouraged, for you will not suffer disgrace,
for you will forget the shame of your youth,
    and the disgrace of your widowhood you will remember no more.^(P)
5 For your Maker is your husband;
    the Lord of hosts is his name;
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
    the God of the whole earth he is called.^(Q)
6 For the Lord has called you
    like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off,
    says your God.^(R)
7 For a brief moment I abandoned you,
    but with great compassion I will gather you.^(S)
8 In overflowing wrath for a moment
    I hid my face from you,
but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,
    says the Lord, your Redeemer.^(T)

⁹ This is like the days of Noah to me:
    Just as I swore that the waters of Noah
    would never again go over the earth,
so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
    and will not rebuke you.^(U)
10 For the mountains may depart
    and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
    and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,
    says the Lord, who has compassion on you.^(V)

¹¹ O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted,
    I am about to set your stones in antimony
    and lay your foundations with sapphires.^[g](W)
12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
    your gates of jewels,
    and all your wall of precious stones.
¹³ All your children shall be taught by the Lord,
    and great shall be the prosperity of your children.^(X)
14 In righteousness you shall be established;
    you shall be far from oppression; indeed, you shall not fear;
    and from terror; indeed, it shall not come near you.^(Y)
15 If anyone stirs up strife,
    it is not from me;
whoever stirs up strife with you
    shall fall because of you.^(Z)
16 See, it is I who have created the smith
    who blows the fire of coals
    and produces a weapon fit for its purpose;
I have also created the ravager to destroy.
¹⁷     No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper,
    and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
    and their vindication from me, says the Lord.^(AA)

⁶ Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;^(AG)
7 let the wicked forsake their way
    and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.^(AH)
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.^(AI)

¹⁰ For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
    and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,^(AJ)
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose
    and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.^(AK)

¹² For you shall go out in joy
    and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
    shall burst into song,
    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.^(AL)
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
    instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle,
and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial,
    for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.^(AM)