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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

"^(C1)Shout for joy, infertile one, you who have not given birth to any child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor; For the sons of the ^(C2)desolate one will be ^(C3)more numerous Than the sons of the married woman," says the LORD.

"^(C1)Enlarge the place of your tent; ^(F1)Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not spare them; Lengthen your ^(C2)ropes And strengthen your ^(C2)pegs.

-"For you will ^(C1)spread out to the right and to the left. And your ^(F1)descendants will ^(C2)possess nations And will ^(C3)resettle the desolate cities.

"Fear not, for you will ^(C1)not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the ^(C2)shame of your youth, And no longer remember the ^(C3)disgrace of your widowhood.

-"For your ^(C1)husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of armies; And your ^(C2)Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the ^(C3)God of all the earth.

-"For the LORD has called you, Like a wife ^(C1)forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected," Says your God.

"^(F1)For a ^(C1)brief moment I abandoned you, But with great compassion I will ^(C2)gather you.

-"In an ^(F1)(C1)outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting ^(C2)favor I will ^(C3)have compassion on you," Says the LORD your ^(C4)Redeemer.

"For ^(F1)this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would ^(C1)not ^(F2)flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will ^(C2)not be angry with you Nor rebuke you.

-"For the ^(C1)mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My ^(F1)favor will not be removed from you, Nor will My ^(C2)covenant of peace be shaken," Says ^(C3)the LORD who has compassion on you.

"^(C1)Afflicted one, storm-tossed, and ^(C2)not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in antimony, And I will ^(C3)lay your foundations with ^(F1)(C4)sapphires.

-"Moreover, I will make your battlements of ^(F1)rubies, And your gates of ^(F2)crystal, And your entire ^(F3)wall of precious stones.

-"^(C1)All your sons will be ^(F1)taught by the LORD; And the well-being of your sons will be ^(C2)great.

-"In ^(C1)righteousness you will be established; You will be far from ^(C2)oppression, for you will ^(C3)not fear; And from ^(C4)terror, for it will not come near you.

-"If anyone fiercely attacks you, it will not be from Me. ^(C1)Whoever attacks you will fall because of you.

-"Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals And produces a weapon for its work; And I have created the destroyer to inflict ruin.

-"^(C1)No weapon that is formed against you will succeed; And you will condemn ^(C2)every tongue that ^(F1)accuses you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their ^(C3)vindication is from Me," declares the LORD.

"^(F1)You there! Everyone who ^(C1)thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have ^(C2)no ^(F2)money come, buy and eat. Come, buy ^(C3)wine and milk ^(C4)Without money and without cost.

-"Why do you ^(F1)spend money for what is ^(C1)not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and ^(C2)eat what is good, And ^(C3)delight yourself in abundance.

-"^(C1)Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that ^(F1)you may ^(C2)live; And I will make ^(C3)an everlasting covenant with you, According to the ^(C4)faithful mercies ^(F2)shown to David.

-"Behold, I have made ^(C1)him a witness to the peoples, A ^(C2)leader and commander for the peoples.

-"Behold, you will call a ^(C1)nation you do not know, And a nation which does not know you will ^(C2)run to you, Because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel; For He has ^(C3)glorified you."

^(C1)Seek the LORD while He may be found; ^(C2)Call upon Him while He is near.

^(C1)Let the wicked abandon his way, And the unrighteous person his ^(C2)thoughts; And let him ^(C3)return to the LORD, And He will have ^(C4)compassion on him, And to our God, For He will ^(C5)abundantly pardon.

"For My thoughts are not ^(C1)your thoughts, Nor are ^(C2)your ways My ways," declares the LORD.

"For ^(C1)as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

-"For as the ^(C1)rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it produce and sprout, And providing ^(C2)seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

So will My ^(C1)word be which goes out of My mouth; It will ^(C2)not return to Me empty, Without ^(C3)accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the purpose for which I sent it.

-"For you will go out with ^(C1)joy And be led in ^(C2)peace; The ^(C3)mountains and the hills will break into shouts of joy before you, And all the ^(C4)trees of the field will clap their hands.

-"Instead of the ^(C1)thorn bush, the ^(C2)juniper will come up, And instead of the ^(C3)stinging nettle, the myrtle will come up; And ^(F1)it will be a ^(F2)(C4)memorial to the LORD, An everlasting ^(C5)sign which ^(C6)will not be eliminated."