The Suffering Servant
aWho has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a atender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has bno stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should desire Him.
3 He was adespised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and bacquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was cdespised, and we did not desteem Him.
4 Surely our griefs He Himself abore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of bGod, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced through for aour transgressions,
He was crushed for bour iniquities;
The cchastening for our peace fell upon Him,
And by dHis wounds we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not aopen His mouth;
bLike a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living,
aThat for the transgression of my people, striking was due to Him?
9 So His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a arich man in His death,
bBecause He had cdone no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But Yahweh was pleased
To acrush Him, bputting Him to grief;
If You would place His soul as a guilt coffering,
He will see dHis seed,
He will prolong His days,
And the good epleasure of Yahweh will succeed in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will asee it and be satisfied;
By His bknowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will cbear their iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will divide for Him a aportion with the many,
And He will divide the spoil with the strong;
Because He poured out bHis soul to death,
And was cnumbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself dbore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.