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Chapter 53
1“Who can believe what we have heard?Upon whom has the arm of the LORD- been revealed?
2For he has grown, by His favor, like a tree crown,Like a tree trunk out of arid ground.He had no form or beauty, that we should look at him:No charm, that we should find him pleasing.
3He was despised, shunned by men,A man of suffering, familiar with disease.As one who hid his face from us,He was despised, we held him of no account.
4Yet it was our sickness that he was bearing,Our suffering that he endured.We accounted him plagued,Smitten and afflicted by God;
5But he was wounded because of our sins,Crushed because of our iniquities.He bore the chastisement that made us whole,And by his bruises we were healed.
6We all went astray like sheep,Each going his own way;And the LORD visited upon himThe guilt of all of us.”
7He was maltreated, yet he was submissive,He did not open his mouth;Like a sheep being led to slaughter,Like a ewe, dumb before those who shear her,He did not open his mouth.
8By oppressive judgment he was taken away,Who could describe his abode?For he was cut off from the land of the livingThrough the sin of my people, who deserved the punishment.
9And his grave was set among the wicked,And with the rich, in his death—Though he had done no injusticeAnd had spoken no falsehood.
10But the LORD chose to crush him by disease,That, if he made himself an offering for guilt,He might see offspring and have long life,And that through him the LORD’s purpose might prosper.
11Out of his anguish he shall see it;He shall enjoy it to the full through his devotion.“My righteous servant makes the many righteous,It is their punishment that he bears;
12Assuredly, I will give him the many as his portion,He shall receive the multitude as his spoil.For he exposed himself to deathAnd was numbered among the sinners,Whereas he bore the guilt of the manyAnd made intercession for sinners.”
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).