Isaiah 53:1-3
New Living Translation
53 Who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
Isaiah 53:1-3
International Standard Version
53 “Who[a] has believed our message,
and[b] to[c] whom has the arm[d] of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a tender plant,
and like a root out of a dry ground;
he had no form and he had[e] no majesty that we should look at him,[f]
and there is no attractiveness that we should desire him.[g]
3 “He was despised and rejected by others,
and[h] a man of sorrows,
intimately familiar with[i] suffering;
and like one from whom people hide their faces;
and[j] we despised him[k]
and did not value him.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 53:1 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab MT; LXX reads Lord, who
- Isaiah 53:1 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; MT lacks and
- Isaiah 53:1 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; MT reads upon
- Isaiah 53:1 I.e. the Messiah
- Isaiah 53:2 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX lack he had
- Isaiah 53:2 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab MT LXX; 1QIsaa may read at ourselves
- Isaiah 53:2 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 1QIsaa may read desire ourselves
- Isaiah 53:3 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX lack and
- Isaiah 53:3 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads and acquainted with; 1QIsab reads and knowing
- Isaiah 53:3 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; MT LXX lacks and
- Isaiah 53:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he was despised
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