Isaiah Chapter 53
1 Who has believed our message?
Who has Yahveh shown his arm to?
He grew up before Yahveh 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 Yahveh 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 Yahveh’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 Yahveh 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