Isaiah 53

Christ’s disciples

53 ¹Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Isaiah

²For He will grow up before Him as a tender plant
and as a root out of dry ground.

Non-believers

He has no form or majesty that we should look at Him
and no appearance that we should desire Him.

Isaiah

³He is despised
and rejected of men,

a man of pains
and familiar with sickness,

and like one from whom people hid their faces.
He is despised!

Non-believers

But we esteemed Him not.

Christ’s disciples

⁴Surely He has borne our sicknesses
and carried our pains;

Non-believers

But we esteemed Him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.

Christ’s disciples

⁵But He was pierced for our transgressions;
He was crushed for our iniquities.

The chastening upon Him made us whole,
and with His stripes we are healed.

Non-believers

⁶All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned, each of us, to his own way.

Christ’s disciples

And the LORD has laid on Him the [iniquities][1] of us all.

Isaiah

⁷He was oppressed,
and He was afflicted,

but He opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as an ewe lamb before her shearers is dumb, He opened not His mouth.

⁸He was taken from oppression and from judgment.

And who will consider His generation?

Because He was cut off out of the land of the living;
He was stricken for the [transgressions][2] of my people.

⁹And He made His grave with the wicked
and with the rich in His death,

though He had done no [evil][3],
nor was any deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰And the LORD desired to crush Him;
He made Him sick.[4]
When you will make His soul a guilt offering, He will see His seed,
He will prolong His days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

¹¹He will see the trouble of His soul, and He will be satisfied;
by His knowledge, My servant, the Righteous One, will make many righteous,
and He will bear their iniquities.

God

¹²Therefore I will divide for Him a portion with the great,
and with the strong He will divide the spoil,

because He has laid His soul bare to death,
and He was numbered with the transgressors;

and He bore the [sins][5] of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.