Isaiah 53 :: New International Version (NIV)

Isa 53:1Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Isa 53:2He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

Isa 53:3

Isa 53:3He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

Isa 53:4

Isa 53:4Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5

Isa 53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Isa 53:6

Isa 53:6We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:7

Isa 53:7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Isa 53:8

Isa 53:8By oppression[fn] and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.[fn]

Isa 53:9

Isa 53:9He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Isa 53:10

Isa 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes[fn] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

Isa 53:11

Isa 53:11After he has suffered, he will see the light of life[fn] and be satisfied[fn]; by his knowledge[fn] my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12

Isa 53:12Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[fn] and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[fn] because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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(53:8)

Or From arrest

(53:8)

Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?

(53:10)

Hebrew though you make

(53:10)

Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied

(53:11)

Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life.

(53:11)

Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied

(53:11)

Or by knowledge of him

(53:12)

Or many

(53:12)

Or numerous

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