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Isaiah 53 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 53
The Sin-Bearing Messiah
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1 Who has believed our report?
​​And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 ​​For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
​​And as a root out of dry ground.
​​He has no form or comeliness;
​​And when we see Him,
​​There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 ​​He is despised and rejected by men,
​​A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
​​And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
​​He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
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4 ​​Surely He has borne our griefs
​​And carried our sorrows;
​​Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
​​Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 ​​But He was wounded for our transgressions,
​​He was bruised for our iniquities;
​​The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
​​And by His stripes we are healed.
6 ​​All we like sheep have gone astray;
​​We have turned, every one, to his own way;
​​And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
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7 ​​He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
​​Yet He opened not His mouth;
​​He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
​​And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
​​So He opened not His mouth.
8 ​​He was taken from prison and from judgment,
​​And who will declare His generation?
​​For He was cut off from the land of the living;
​​For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 ​​And they[fn] made His grave with the wicked—
​​But with the rich at His death,
​​Because He had done no violence,
​​Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
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10 ​​Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
​​He has put Him to grief.
​​When You make His soul an offering for sin,
​​He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
​​And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
11 ​​He shall see the labor of His soul,[fn] and be satisfied.
​​By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
​​For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 ​​Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
​​And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
​​Because He poured out His soul unto death,
​​And He was numbered with the transgressors,
​​And He bore the sin of many,
​​And made intercession for the transgressors.
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NKJV Footnotes
Literally he or He
Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read From the labor of His soul He shall see light.
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