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Isaiah 53
New King James Version

### The Sin-Bearing Messiah

53 Who (A)has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no [a]form or [b]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no [c]beauty that we should desire Him.
3 (B)He is despised and [d]rejected by men,
A Man of [e]sorrows and (C)acquainted with [f]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and (D)we did not esteem Him.

4 Surely (E)He has borne our [g]griefs
And carried our [h]sorrows;
Yet we [i]esteemed Him stricken,
[j]Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was (F)wounded[k] for our transgressions,
He was [l]bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His (G)stripes[m] we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord [n]has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet (H)He opened not His mouth;
(I)He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was (J)taken from [o]prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For (K)He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 (L)And [p]they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any (M)deceit in His mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to [q]bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul (N)an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 [r]He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge (O)My righteous (P)Servant shall (Q)justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 (R)Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
(S)And He shall divide the [s]spoil with the strong,
Because He (T)poured out His soul unto death,
And He was (U)numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And (V)made intercession for the transgressors.

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 53:2 Stately form
2. Isaiah 53:2 splendor
3. Isaiah 53:2 Lit. appearance
4. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
5. Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
6. Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness
7. Isaiah 53:4 Lit. sicknesses
8. Isaiah 53:4 Lit. pains
9. Isaiah 53:4 reckoned
10. Isaiah 53:4 Struck down
11. Isaiah 53:5 Or pierced through
12. Isaiah 53:5 crushed
13. Isaiah 53:5 Blows that cut in
14. Isaiah 53:6 Lit. has caused to land on Him
15. Isaiah 53:8 confinement
16. Isaiah 53:9 Lit. he or He
17. Isaiah 53:10 crush
18. Isaiah 53:11 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX From the labor of His soul He shall see light
19. Isaiah 53:12 plunder

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 53:1 : John 12:38; Rom. 10:16
2. Isaiah 53:3 : Ps. 22:6; [Is. 49:7; Matt. 27:30, 31; Luke 18:31–33; 23:18]
3. Isaiah 53:3 : [Heb. 4:15]
4. Isaiah 53:3 : [John 1:10, 11]
5. Isaiah 53:4 : [Matt. 8:17; Heb. 9:28; 1 Pet. 2:24]
6. Isaiah 53:5 : [Is. 53:10; Rom. 4:25; 1 Cor. 15:3, 4]
7. Isaiah 53:5 : [1 Pet. 2:24, 25]
8. Isaiah 53:7 : Matt. 26:63; 27:12–14; Mark 14:61; 15:5; Luke 23:9; John 19:9
9. Isaiah 53:7 : Acts 8:32, 33; Rev. 5:6
10. Isaiah 53:8 : Matt. 27:11–26; Luke 23:1–25
11. Isaiah 53:8 : [Dan. 9:26]
12. Isaiah 53:9 : Matt. 27:57–60; Luke 23:33
13. Isaiah 53:9 : 1 Pet. 2:22; 1 John 3:5
14. Isaiah 53:10 : John 1:29; Acts 2:24; [2 Cor. 5:21]
15. Isaiah 53:11 : [1 John 2:1]
16. Isaiah 53:11 : Is. 42:1
17. Isaiah 53:11 : [Acts 13:38, 39; Rom. 5:15–18]
18. Isaiah 53:12 : Ps. 2:8
19. Isaiah 53:12 : Col. 2:15
20. Isaiah 53:12 : Is. 50:6; [Rom. 3:25]
21. Isaiah 53:12 : Matt. 27:38; Mark 15:28; Luke 22:37; 2 Cor. 5:21
22. Isaiah 53:12 : Luke 23:34

New King James Version (NKJV)

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