Isaiah 52:13-53:12

English Standard Version

He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions

¹³Behold, ^(A)my servant shall act wisely;^[a]
    he shall be high and lifted up,
    and shall be exalted.
¹⁴As many were astonished at you—
    ^(B)his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
¹⁵so ^(C)shall he sprinkle^[b] many nations.
    ^(D)Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
^(E)for that which has not been told them they see,
    and that which they have not heard they understand.
53 ^(F)Who has believed what he has heard from us?^[c]
    And to whom has ^(G)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    ^(H)and like a root out of dry ground;
^(I)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
³^(J)He was despised and rejected^[d] by men,
    a man of sorrows^[e] and acquainted with^[f] grief;^[g]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[h]
    he was despised, and ^(K)we esteemed him not.

⁴^(L)Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    ^(M)smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵^(N)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    ^(O)and with his wounds we are healed.
⁶^(P)All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^(Q)and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    ^(R)yet he opened not his mouth;
^(S)like a ^(T)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he opened not his mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
    and as for his generation, ^(U)who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
    stricken for the transgression of my people?
⁹And they made his grave with the wicked
    ^(V)and with a rich man in his death,
although ^(W)he had done no violence,
    and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet ^(X)it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
    he has put him to grief;^[i]
^(Y)when his soul makes^[j] an offering for guilt,
    he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^(Z)the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
¹¹Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see^[k] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ^(AA)the righteous one, my servant,
    ^(AB)make many to be accounted righteous,
    ^(AC)and he shall bear their iniquities.
¹²^(AD)Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,^[l]
    ^(AE)and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,^[m]
because he poured out his soul to death
    and was numbered with the transgressors;
^(AF)yet he bore the sin of many,
    and makes intercession for the transgressors.