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Isaiah 53 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

The Suffering Servant

Isa 53:1

Who has believed our report?

And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

Isa 53:2

For He grew up before Him like a tender [fn]shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has no stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should desire Him.

Isa 53:3

He was despised and forsaken of men,

A man of [fn]sorrows and acquainted with [fn]grief;

And like one from whom men hide their face

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Isa 53:4

Surely our [fn]griefs He Himself [fn]bore,

And our [fn]sorrows He [fn]carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

[fn]Smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5

But He was [fn]pierced through for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

The chastening for our peace fell upon Him,

And by His [fn]wounds we are healed.

Isa 53:6

All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us all

To [fn]fall on Him.

Isa 53:7

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

Isa 53:8

By oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation, who considered

That He was cut off out of the land of [fn]the living,

That for the transgression of my people, striking was due to Him?

Isa 53:9

So His grave was assigned with wicked men,

Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

Isa 53:10

But [fn]Yahweh was pleased

To crush Him, [fn]putting Him to grief;

If You would place His soul as a guilt offering,

He will see His seed,

He will prolong His days,

And the [fn]good pleasure of Yahweh will succeed in His hand.

Isa 53:11

As a result of the [fn]anguish of His soul,

He will see [fn]it and be satisfied;

By His knowledge the Righteous One,

My Servant, will [fn]justify the many,

As He will bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12

Therefore, I will divide for Him a portion with the many,

And He will divide the spoil with the strong;

Because He poured out His soul to death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

Yet He Himself [fn]bore the sin of many,

And interceded for the transgressors.

LSB Footnotes
Lit suckling
Or pains
Or sickness
Or sickness
Or carried
Or pains
Or bore
Or Struck down by
Or wounded
Lit wound
Lit encounter Him
Or life
Or it was the desire of Yahweh, cf. Ps 40:6
Or He put Him to grief; lit He made Him sick
Or will of, desire of; cf. Ps 40:6
Or toilsome labor
Or light
Or declare the many righteous, cf. 53:11a; 5:23
Or carried
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