1 The Suffering Servant Who has believed [confidently trusted in, relied on, and adhered to] our message [of salvation]?And to whom [if not us] has the armandinfinite power of the Lbeen revealed?
2 For He [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender shoot (plant),And like a root out of dry ground;He has nostatelyform ormajesticsplendorThat we would look at Him,Nor [handsome] appearance that we wouldLit take pleasure in.be attracted to Him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,A Man of sorrowsandpain and acquainted with grief;And like One from whom men hide their facesHe was despised, and we did not appreciate His worthoresteem Him.
4 But [in fact] He has borne our griefs,And He has carried our sorrowsandpains;Yet we [ignorantly] assumed that He was stricken,Struck down by God and degradedandhumiliated [by Him].
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing];The punishment [required] for our well-beingfellon Him,And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,We have turned, each one, to his own way;But the Lhas caused the wickedness of us all [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]To fall on Him [instead of us].
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,Yet He did not open His mouth [to complain or defend Himself];Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers,So He did not open His mouth.
8 Or Due to.After oppression and judgment He was taken away;AndOr who will explain to His generation.as for His generation [His contemporaries], who [among them] concerned himselfwith the factThat He was cut off from the land of the living [by His death]For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [of death]was due?
9 His grave was assigned with the wicked,But He was with a rich man in His death,Because He had done no violence,Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet the LwasOr pleased.willingTo crush Him,Lit He made Him sick.causing Him to suffer;IfOr His soul presents an offering.He would give Himself as a guilt offering [an atonement for sin],He shall seeHis[spiritual] offspring,He shall prolongHisdays,And the will (good pleasure) of the Lshall succeedandprosper in His hand.
11 As a result of theLit trouble.anguish of His soul,He shall see it and be satisfied;By His knowledge [of what He has accomplished] the Righteous One,My Servant, shall justify the many [making them righteous—upright before God, in right standing with Him],For He shall bear [the responsibility for] their sins.
12 Therefore, I will divideandgive Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers],And He shall divide the spoils with the mighty,Because He [willingly] poured out His life to death,And was counted among the transgressors;Yet He Himself boreandtook away the sin of many,And interceded [with the Father] for the transgressors.