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The Suffering Servant

^1 (C1)Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

² For He grew up before Him like a ^(C1)tender ^(F1)shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has ^(C2)no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should desire Him.

³ He was ^(C1)despised and forsaken of men,
A man of ^(F1)sorrows and ^(C2)acquainted with ^(F2)grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was ^(C3)despised, and we did not ^(C4)esteem Him.

⁴ Surely our ^(F1)griefs He Himself ^(F2)(C1)bore,
And our ^(F3)sorrows He ^(F4)carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
^(F5)Smitten of ^(C2)God, and afflicted.

⁵ But He was ^(F1)pierced through for ^(C1)our transgressions,
He was crushed for ^(C2)our iniquities;
The ^(C3)chastening for our peace fell upon Him,
And by ^(C4)His ^(F2)wounds we are healed.

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 ^(F1)fall on Him.

⁷ He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not ^(C1)open His mouth;
^(C2)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.

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 ^(F1)the living,
^(C1)That for the transgression of my people, striking was due to Him?

⁹ So His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet 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.

¹⁰ But ^(F1)Yahweh was pleased
To ^(C1)crush Him, ^(F2)(C2)putting Him to grief;
If You would place His soul as a guilt ^(C3)offering,
He will see ^(C4)His seed,
He will prolong His days,
And the ^(F3)good ^(C5)pleasure of Yahweh will succeed in His hand.

¹¹ As a result of the ^(F1)anguish of His soul,
He will ^(C1)see ^(F2)it and be satisfied;
By His ^(C2)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will ^(F3)justify the many,
As He will ^(C3)bear their iniquities.

¹² Therefore, I will divide for Him a ^(C1)portion with the many,
And He will divide the spoil with the strong;
Because He poured out ^(C2)His soul to death,
And was ^(C3)numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself ^(F1)(C4)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.