1. Who has believed our message?To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2. For he grew up before him as a tender plant,and as a root out of dry ground.He has no good looks or majesty.When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3. He was despised,and rejected by men;a man of suffering,and acquainted with disease.He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;and we didn’t respect him.
4. Surely he has borne our sickness,and carried our suffering;yet we considered him plagued,struck by God, and afflicted.
5. But he was pierced for our transgressions.He was crushed for our iniquities.The punishment that brought our peace was on him;and by his wounds we are healed.
6. All we like sheep have gone astray.Everyone has turned to his own way;and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7. He was oppressed,yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth.As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent,so he didn’t open his mouth.
8. He was taken away by oppression and judgement;and as for his generation,who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the livingand stricken for the disobedience of my people?