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The Suffering Servant

^1 (C1)Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD 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 ^(F2)be attracted to 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 ^(C1)bore,
And our ^(F2)sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
^(F3)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 ^(F2)well-being fell upon Him,
And by ^(C4)His scourging we are healed.

⁶ All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD 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 the ^(F1)living
^(C1)For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

⁹ 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 the LORD was pleased
To ^(C1)crush Him, ^(F1)(C2)putting Him to grief;
If ^(F2)He would render Himself as a guilt ^(C3)offering,
He will see ^(C4)His ^(F3)offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the ^(F4)good ^(C5)pleasure of the LORD will prosper 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 justify the many,
As He will ^(C3)bear their iniquities.

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