Isaiah 53 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

The Suffering Servant

1Who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm and infinite power of the Lord been revealed?

2For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot (plant),

And like a root out of dry ground;

He has no stately form or majestic splendor

That we would look at Him,

Nor appearance that we would be attracted to Him.

3He was despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;

And like One from whom men hide their faces

He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.

4¶But He has borne our griefs,

And He has carried our sorrows and pains;

Yet we assumed that He was stricken,

Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated.

5But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our wickedness;

The punishment for our well-being fell on Him,

And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.

6All of us like sheep have gone astray,

We have turned, each one, to his own way;

But the Lord has caused the wickedness of us all

To fall on Him.

7¶He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

8 After oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation, who concerned himself with the fact

That He was cut off from the land of the living

For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

9His grave was assigned with the wicked,

But He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

10¶Yet the Lord was willing

To crush Him, causing Him to suffer;

If He would give Himself as a guilt offering,

He shall see His offspring,

He shall prolong His days,

And the will (good pleasure) of the Lord shall succeed and prosper in His hand.

11As a result of the anguish of His soul,

He shall see it and be satisfied;

By His knowledge the Righteous One,

My Servant, shall justify the many,

For He shall bear their sins.

12Therefore, I will divide and give Him a portion with the great,

And He shall divide the spoils with the mighty,

Because He poured out His life to death,

And was counted among the transgressors;

Yet He Himself bore and took away the sin of many,

And interceded for the transgressors.