New Living Translation
Isaiah • Chapter 53
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Who has believed our message?<br>To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm?<br>
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My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot,<br>like a root in dry ground.<br>There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,<br>nothing to attract us to him.<br>
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He was despised and rejected —<br>a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.<br>We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.<br>He was despised, and we did not care.<br>
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Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;<br>it was our sorrows that weighed him down.<br>And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God (Elohim),<br>a punishment for his own sins!<br>
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But he was pierced for our rebellion,<br>crushed for our sins.<br>He was beaten so we could be whole.<br>He was whipped so we could be healed.<br>
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All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.<br>We have left God (Elohim)’s paths to follow our own.<br>Yet the LORD laid on him<br>the sins of us all.<br>
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He was oppressed and treated harshly,<br>yet he never said a word.<br>He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.<br>And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,<br>he did not open his mouth.<br>
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Unjustly condemned,<br>he was led away.<br>No one cared that he died without descendants,<br>that his life was cut short in midstream.<br>But he was struck down<br>for the rebellion of my people.<br>
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He had done no wrong<br>and had never deceived anyone.<br>But he was buried like a criminal;<br>he was put in a rich man’s grave.<br>
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But it was the LORD’s good plan to crush him<br>and cause him grief.<br>Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,<br>he will have many descendants.<br>He will enjoy a long life,<br>and the LORD’s good plan will prosper in his hands.<br>
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When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,<br>he will be satisfied.<br>And because of his experience,<br>my righteous servant will make it possible<br>for many to be counted righteous,<br>for he will bear all their sins.<br>
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I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier,<br>because he exposed himself to death.<br>He was counted among the rebels.<br>He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.<br>