The Suffering Servant
aWho has believed our report?And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?John 12:38; Rom 10:162 For He grew up before Him like a atender 1shoot,And like a root out of dry ground;He has bno stately form or majestyThat we would look at Him,Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.Lit sucklingIs 11:1Is 52:143 He was adespised and abandoned by men,A man of 1great pain and bfamiliar with sickness;And like one from whom people hide their faces,He was cdespised, and we had no dregard for Him.Lit painsPs 22:6; Is 49:7; Luke 18:31-33Is 53:10Mark 10:33, 34John 1:10, 11
4 However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself abore,And our pains that He carried;Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,Struck down by bGod, and humiliated.Matt 8:17John 19:75 But He was 1pierced for aour offenses,He was crushed for bour wrongdoings;The cpunishment for our 2well-being was laid upon Him,And by dHis wounds we are healed.Or woundedOr peaceIs 53:8; Heb 9:28Is 53:10; Rom 4:25; 1 Cor 15:3Deut 11:2; Heb 5:81 Pet 2:24, 256 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,Each of us has turned to his own way;But the LORD has caused the wrongdoing of us allTo 1fall on Him.Lit encounter Him
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,Yet He did not aopen His mouth;bLike a lamb that is led to slaughter,And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,So He did not open His mouth.Matt 26:63; 27:12-14; Mark 14:61; 15:5; Luke 23:9; John 19:9Acts 8:32, 33; Rev 5:68 By oppression and judgment He was taken away;And as for His generation, who consideredThat He was cut off from the land of the 1livingaFor the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?Or lifeIs 53:5, 129 And His grave was assigned with wicked men,Yet He was with a arich man in His death,bBecause He had cdone no violence,Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.Matt 27:57-60Is 42:1-31 Pet 2:22
10 But the LORD desiredTo acrush Him, 1bcausing Him grief;If He renders 2Himself as a guilt coffering,He will see dHis 3offspring,He will prolong His days,And the 4good epleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.Lit He made Him sickLit His soulLit seedOr will ofIs 53:5Is 53:3, 4Is 53:6, 12; John 1:29Ps 22:30; Is 54:3; 61:9; 66:22Is 46:1011 As a result of the 1anguish of His soul,He will 2asee it and be satisfied;By His bknowledge the Righteous One,My Servant, will justify the many,For He will cbear their wrongdoings.Or troubleDSS see light; LXX also has lightJohn 10:14-18Is 45:25; Rom 5:18, 19Is 53:5, 612 Therefore, I will allot Him a aportion with the great,And He will divide the plunder with the strong,Because He poured out His 1blife unto death,And was ccounted with wrongdoers;Yet He Himself dbore the sin of many,And interceded for the wrongdoers.Lit soulIs 52:13; Phil 2:9-11Matt 26:38, 39, 42Luke 22:37Is 53:6, 11; 2 Cor 5:21