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Isaiah 53
New International Version

53 Who has believed our message(A)
and to whom has the arm(B) of the Lord been revealed?(C)
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(D)
and like a root(E) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance(F) that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering,(G) and familiar with pain.(H)
Like one from whom people hide(I) their faces
he was despised,(J) and we held him in low esteem.

4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,(K)
yet we considered him punished by God,(L)
stricken by him, and afflicted.(M)
5 But he was pierced(N) for our transgressions,(O)
he was crushed(P) for our iniquities;
the punishment(Q) that brought us peace(R) was on him,
and by his wounds(S) we are healed.(T)
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(U)
each of us has turned to our own way;(V)
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity(W) of us all.

7 He was oppressed(X) and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;(Y)
he was led like a lamb(Z) to the slaughter,(AA)
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression[a] and judgment(AB) he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;(AC)
for the transgression(AD) of my people he was punished.[b]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,(AE)
and with the rich(AF) in his death,
though he had done no violence,(AG)
nor was any deceit in his mouth.(AH)

10 Yet it was the Lord’s will(AI) to crush(AJ) him and cause him to suffer,(AK)
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,(AL)
he will see his offspring(AM) and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper(AN) in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,(AO)
he will see the light(AP) of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant(AQ) will justify(AR) many,
and he will bear their iniquities.(AS)
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g](AT)
and he will divide the spoils(AU) with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,(AV)
and was numbered with the transgressors.(AW)
For he bore(AX) the sin of many,(AY)
and made intercession(AZ) for the transgressors.

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 53:8 Or From arrest
2. Isaiah 53:8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?
3. Isaiah 53:10 Hebrew though you make
4. Isaiah 53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life.
5. Isaiah 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied
6. Isaiah 53:11 Or by knowledge of him
7. Isaiah 53:12 Or many
8. Isaiah 53:12 Or numerous

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 53:1 : S Isa 28:9; Ro 10:16*
2. Isaiah 53:1 : S Ps 98:1; S Isa 30:30
3. Isaiah 53:1 : Jn 12:38*
4. Isaiah 53:2 : S 2Ki 19:26; S Job 14:7; S Isa 4:2
5. Isaiah 53:2 : S Isa 11:10
6. Isaiah 53:2 : Isa 52:14
7. Isaiah 53:3 : Ps 69:29
8. Isaiah 53:3 : ver 4, 10; S Ex 1:10; S Mt 16:21; Lk 18:31-33; Heb 5:8
9. Isaiah 53:3 : S Dt 31:17; Isa 1:15
10. Isaiah 53:3 : S 1Sa 2:30; S Ps 22:6; Mt 27:29; Jn 1:10-11
11. Isaiah 53:4 : Mt 8:17*
12. Isaiah 53:4 : S Dt 5:24; S Job 4:5; Jer 23:5-6; 25:34; Eze 34:23-24; Mic 5:2-4; Zec 13:7; Jn 19:7
13. Isaiah 53:4 : S ver 3; S Ge 12:17; S Ru 1:21
14. Isaiah 53:5 : S Ps 22:16
15. Isaiah 53:5 : S Ex 28:38; S Ps 39:8; S Jn 3:17; Ro 4:25; 1Co 15:3; Heb 9:28
16. Isaiah 53:5 : Ps 34:18
17. Isaiah 53:5 : S Isa 50:6
18. Isaiah 53:5 : S Isa 9:6; Ro 5:1
19. Isaiah 53:5 : Isa 1:6; Mt 27:26; Jn 19:1
20. Isaiah 53:5 : S Dt 32:39; S 2Ch 7:14; 1Pe 2:24-25
21. Isaiah 53:6 : S Ps 95:10; 1Pe 2:24-25
22. Isaiah 53:6 : S 1Sa 8:3; Isa 56:11; 57:17; Mic 3:5
23. Isaiah 53:6 : ver 12; S Ex 28:38; Ro 4:25
24. Isaiah 53:7 : Isa 49:26
25. Isaiah 53:7 : S Mk 14:61; 1Pe 2:23
26. Isaiah 53:7 : Mt 27:31; S Jn 1:29
27. Isaiah 53:7 : S Ps 44:22
28. Isaiah 53:8 : Mk 14:49
29. Isaiah 53:8 : Ps 88:5; Da 9:26; Ac 8:32-33*
30. Isaiah 53:8 : ver 12; S Ps 39:8
31. Isaiah 53:9 : Mt 27:38; Mk 15:27; Lk 23:32; Jn 19:18
32. Isaiah 53:9 : Mt 27:57-60; Mk 15:43-46; Lk 23:50-53; Jn 19:38-41
33. Isaiah 53:9 : Isa 42:1-3
34. Isaiah 53:9 : S Job 16:17; 1Pe 2:22*; 1Jn 3:5; Rev 14:5
35. Isaiah 53:10 : Isa 46:10; 55:11; Ac 2:23
36. Isaiah 53:10 : ver 5
37. Isaiah 53:10 : S ver 3; S Ge 12:17
38. Isaiah 53:10 : S Lev 5:15; Jn 3:17
39. Isaiah 53:10 : S Ps 22:30
40. Isaiah 53:10 : S Jos 1:8; S Isa 49:4
41. Isaiah 53:11 : Jn 10:14-18
42. Isaiah 53:11 : S Job 33:30
43. Isaiah 53:11 : S Isa 20:3; Ac 7:52
44. Isaiah 53:11 : S Isa 6:7; Jn 1:29; Ac 10:43; S Ro 4:25
45. Isaiah 53:11 : S Ex 28:38
46. Isaiah 53:12 : S Isa 6:1; S Php 2:9
47. Isaiah 53:12 : S Ex 15:9; S Ps 119:162; Lk 11:22
48. Isaiah 53:12 : Mt 26:28, 38, 39, 42
49. Isaiah 53:12 : Mt 27:38; Mk 15:27*; Lk 22:37*; 23:32
50. Isaiah 53:12 : S ver 6; 1Pe 2:24
51. Isaiah 53:12 : Heb 9:28
52. Isaiah 53:12 : Isa 59:16; S Ro 8:34

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