Apr 3, 2019
13 See, my servant will act
wisely[a];
he will be raised and lifted up and highly
exalted.
14 Just as there were many who were
appalled at him[b]—
his appearance was so disfigured beyond that
of any human being
and his form marred beyond human
likeness—
15 so he will sprinkle many
nations,[c]
and kings will shut their mouths because
of him.
For what they were not told, they will
see,
and what they have not heard, they will
understand.
53 Who
has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of
the Lord been
revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender
shoot,
and like a root out of dry
ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract
us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should
desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by
mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with
pain.
Like one from whom people
hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low
esteem.
4 Surely he took
up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by
God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our
transgressions,
he was crushed for our
iniquities;
the punishment that brought us
peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are
healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone
astray,
each of us has turned to our own
way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.