Isaiah 53
1O LORD, who hath believed this report of ours, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been made manifest?
2We have made proclamation as a child before him: as a root in a thirsty soil, he hath no appearance nor glory. We have seen him; and he hath neither appearance nor beauty:
3but his appearance is mean and defective beyond the sons of men. Being a man in affliction and acquainted with grief, because his countenance was dejected, he was despised and disesteemed.
4This man beareth away our sins; and for us he is in sorrow: and we considered him as being in trouble and under a stroke and in affliction.
5But he was wounded for our sins, and afflicted for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him; by his bruises we are healed.
6We all like sheep had strayed; every man wandered in his way: and the Lord delivered him up for our sins:
7and he, on account of his affliction, openeth not his mouth. He was led as a lamb to be slaughtered. And as a sheep before its shearer is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8In this humiliation his legal trial was taken away. Who can describe the [evil] generation of men among whom he lived? Because his life is taken from the earth—for the transgressions of my people he is led to death,—
9therefore I will appoint the wicked for his tomb, and the rich for his death, because he committed no iniquity, nor practised guile with his mouth.
10And the Lord determined to purify him from this blow: if there shall be given up an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed.
11Moreover, it is the determination of the Lord to take away the trouble of his soul—to shew him light and inform him with understanding—to justify the righteous one who is serving many well. And he shall bear away their sins;
12therefore he shall inherit much and divide the spoils of the strong. His soul was delivered up to death and he was numbered among transgressors and bore away the sins of many, and on account of their iniquities was delivered up.