Isaiah 53:2-8

New International Version

² He grew up before him like a tender shoot,^(A)
    and like a root^(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance^(C) that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,^(D) and familiar with pain.^(E)
Like one from whom people hide^(F) their faces
    he was despised,^(G) and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,^(H)
yet we considered him punished by God,^(I)
    stricken by him, and afflicted.^(J)
5 But he was pierced^(K) for our transgressions,^(L)
    he was crushed^(M) for our iniquities;
the punishment^(N) that brought us peace^(O) was on him,
    and by his wounds^(P) we are healed.^(Q)
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,^(R)
    each of us has turned to our own way;^(S)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity^(T) of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed^(U) and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;^(V)
he was led like a lamb^(W) to the slaughter,^(X)
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
⁸ By oppression^[a] and judgment^(Y) he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;^(Z)
    for the transgression^(AA) of my people he was punished.^[b]