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1 Who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, no appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with illness.
Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
4 Surely he bore our illnesses and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wound we were healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray;
each has turned to his own way.
But the LORD laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter, and like a ewe silent before her shearers, he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and his generation, who considered it?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people the blow fell on him.
9 His grave was assigned with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, though he had done no violence and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet the LORD willed to crush him;
he made him ill.
If you make his life a guilt offering, he will see offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
11 From the anguish of his soul he will see and be satisfied.
By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion among the many, and he will divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his life to death and was numbered with transgressors.
He bore the sin of many and interceded for transgressors.