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The Suffering Servant

^1 (C1)Who has believed confidently trusted in, relied on, and adhered to our message of salvation? ^(VR1)
And to whom if not us has the arm and infinite power of the LORD been revealed? ^(VR2)

² For He the Servant of God grew up before Him like a ^(C1)tender shoot (plant),
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has ^(C2)no stately form or majestic splendor
That we would look at Him,
Nor handsome appearance that we would ^(F1)be attracted to Him.

³ He was ^(C1)despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and pain and ^(C2)acquainted with grief;
And like One from whom men hide their faces
He was ^(C3)despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or ^(C4)esteem Him.

⁴ But in fact He has ^(C1)borne our griefs,
And He has carried our sorrows and pains;
Yet we ignorantly assumed that He was stricken,
Struck down by ^(C2)God and degraded and humiliated by Him. ^(VR1)

⁵ But He was wounded for ^(C1)our transgressions,
He was crushed for ^(C2)our wickedness our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing;
The ^(C3)punishment required for our well-being fell on Him,
And by His ^(C4)stripes (wounds) we are healed.

⁶ All of us like sheep have gone astray,
We have turned, each one, to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the wickedness of us all our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing
To fall on Him instead of us. ^(VR1)

⁷ He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not ^(C1)open His mouth to complain or defend Himself;
^(C2)Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.

^8 (F1)After oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And ^(F2)as for His generation His contemporaries, who among them concerned himself with the fact
That He was cut off from the land of the living by His death
^(C1)For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke of death was due?

⁹ His grave was assigned with the wicked,
But He was with a ^(C1)rich man in His death,
^(C2)Because He had ^(C3)done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. ^(VR1)

¹⁰ Yet the LORD was ^(F1)willing
To ^(C1)crush Him, ^(F2)(C2)causing Him to suffer;
If ^(F3)He would give Himself as a guilt ^(C3)offering an atonement for sin,
He shall see ^(C4)His spiritual offspring,
He shall prolong His days,
And the ^(C5)will (good pleasure) of the LORD shall succeed and prosper in His hand.

¹¹ As a result of the ^(F1)anguish of His soul,
He shall ^(C1)see it and be satisfied;
By His ^(C2)knowledge of what He has accomplished the Righteous One,
My Servant, shall justify the many making them righteous—upright before God, in right standing with Him,
For He shall ^(C3)bear the responsibility for their sins.

¹² Therefore, I will divide and give Him a ^(C1)portion with the great kings and rulers,
And He shall divide the spoils with the mighty,
Because He willingly poured out His ^(C2)life to death,
And was ^(C3)counted among the transgressors;
Yet He Himself ^(C4)bore and took away the sin of many,
And interceded with the Father for the transgressors. ^(VR1)