[1] Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the
LORD been revealed? [2] For he grew up before him like a young plant, and
like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should
look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. [3] He was despised
and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as
one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him
not. [4] Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we
esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. [5] But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him
was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are
healed. [6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to
his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. [7] He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a
lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its
shearers is dumb, so he opened not 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, stricken for the
transgression of my people? [9] And they made his grave with the wicked and
with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there
was no deceit in his mouth. [10] Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise
him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he
shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD
shall prosper in his hand; [11] he shall see the fruit of the travail of
his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my
servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their
iniquities. [12] Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and
he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul
to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of
many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
