See my servant: he shall accomplish his purpose;
he will rise and be lifted up,
and he shall be exalted most high.
Just as there were many who were shocked at him
—one whose appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man,
whose form beyond human likeness,
so that his blood sprinkled many nations—
so kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.
Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised, lacking supporters,
a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we thought him of no value.
Surely he has borne our suffering
and carried our sorrows;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God and afflicted.
But he was pierced through for our rebellions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that reconciled us with God,
and at the cost of his wounds we are healed.
All of us, like sheep, have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he allowed himself to be 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 its shearers,
so he did not open his mouth.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away;
and as for his contemporaries, who realized
that when he was cut down out of the land of the living,
he was stricken for the rebellion of my people?
They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the LORD who willed to crush him, causing him to suffer.
If you make his life an offering for sin,
then he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper through his work.
Because of his anguish he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge, my righteous servant shall make many righteous,
for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him the many,
and he shall divide the strong as the spoils of his victory,
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered among the sinners;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
—Isaiah 52:13-53:12