1 Who has believed what we heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a young shoot, like a root out of parched ground. He had no stately form or majesty for us to look at him, no appearance for us to be drawn to him.
3 He was despised and shunned by men, a man of pains who knew sickness well; like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we thought nothing of him.
4 Yet it was our sicknesses he bore, and our pains he carried; but we regarded him as stricken, struck down by God and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that won our peace was laid on him, and by his stripes we are healed.
6 All of us have wandered off like sheep; each of us has turned to his own way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and humbled himself, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb led off to slaughter, like a ewe that is silent before her shearers, he did not open his mouth.
8 Through oppression and judgment he was taken away; and who of his generation gave it a thought, that he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 They assigned him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, though he had done no violence and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him; he made him suffer. When you make his soul a guilt offering, he will see offspring, he will lengthen his days, and the LORD's purpose will succeed in his hand.
11 After the travail of his soul he will see and be satisfied; through his knowledge the Righteous One, my servant, will make many righteous, and he himself will carry their iniquities.
12 So I will give him a share among the many, and he will divide the plunder with the mighty, because he poured out his soul to death and was counted among the transgressors; he bore the sin of many and intercedes for the transgressors.