Isaiah Chapter 53
1 Who has believed our message?
Who has the LORD shown his arm to?
He grew up before the LORD like a tender sprout,
like a shoot out of parched ground.
2 He wasn’t particularly handsome or noble
to draw our attention to him
or have the looks that would attract us to him.
3 People despised and abandoned him,
a pained man, acquainted with grief;
like someone people look the other way from,
we looked down on him and didn’t respect him.
Is 53:1-3
4 Actually though, he was shouldering our weaknesses
and carrying our pains,
but we considered him
someone God struck and made suffer.
5 But he was pierced for our sins,
crushed for our iniquities.
The discipline that was for our welfare fell on him,
and by his scourging we are healed.
6 We’ve all wandered off like sheep
and turned to our own way;
but the LORD laid on him the sinfulness of us all.
Is 53:4-6
7 He was oppressed and suffering,
but he didn’t say anything;
like a lamb they led to slaughter
or a sheep silent before its shearers,
he didn’t open his mouth.
8 He was taken away by oppression and condemnation;
who realized at the time
that he was being cut off from the living
for the sins of my people, who deserved the stroke?
9 They assigned his grave with criminals
though he hadn’t deceived or been violent;
yet he was associated with a rich man in his death.
Is 53:7-9
10 But it was the LORD’s plan to crush him,
to put him to grief;
when he offers himself as a guilt offering,
he’ll see his offspring and extend his life,
and the LORD will accomplish his good pleasure in him.
11 He’ll see what results from his anguish and feel fulfilled;
by his experience, my servant the upright one,
will justify many by shouldering their sins.
12 So God will assign him a place among the great,
and he’ll divide the spoil with the strong
because he poured out his life
when they treated him like a transgressor.
But he was shouldering many other people’s sins
and interceding for them.
Is 53:10-12