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The Suffering Servant

^1 (C1)Who has believed our report?
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 dry ground;
He has ^(C2)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.

³ He was ^(C1)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of ^(F1)great pain and ^(C2)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was ^(C3)despised, and we had no ^(C4)regard for Him.

⁴ However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself ^(C1)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by ^(C2)God, and humiliated.

⁵ But He was ^(F1)pierced for ^(C1)our offenses,
He was crushed for ^(C2)our wrongdoings;
The ^(C3)punishment for our ^(F2)well-being was laid upon Him,
And by ^(C4)His wounds 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 wrongdoing of us all
To ^(F1)fall on Him.

⁷ He was oppressed and 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 from the land of the ^(F1)living
^(C1)For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?

⁹ And 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 desired
To ^(C1)crush Him, ^(F1)(C2)causing Him grief;
If He renders ^(F2)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 ^(F2)(C1)see it and be satisfied;
By His ^(C2)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will ^(C3)bear their wrongdoings.

¹² Therefore, I will allot Him a ^(C1)portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His ^(F1)(C2)life unto death,
And was ^(C3)counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself ^(C4)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.