13See, my servant will act wisely; he will be exalted and lifted up, and he will be very high.14Just as many were appalled at you, so she was disfigured beyond man—his appearance and his form beyond the sons of humanity.15In this way he will sprinkle many nations; kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what had not been told them they saw, and what they had not heard they contemplated.
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Chapter 53
1Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?2He went up like a suckling before him, like a root from dry ground. He had no form or majesty. We saw him, but he had no beauty that we should desire him.3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and acquainted with sickness. And like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.4Surely he bore our illnesses and carried our pains, but we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.5And he being profaned from our transgressions, being crushed from our iniquities; the discipline of our peace was upon him, and by his bruise we have been healed—for us.6All of us like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter, and like a ewe before her shearer is silent, he did not open his mouth.8From arrest and from judgment he was taken, and his generation—who will speak of it? For he was cut off from the land of the living; on account of the transgression of my people he was stricken for them.9He gave his grave with the wicked, and with a rich one in his deaths, because he did no violence and no deceit was in his mouth.10And the LORD delighted to crush him; he made him sick. If you set his soul as a guilt offering, he will see seed, he will prolong days, and the delight of the LORD in his hand will prosper.11From the toil of his soul he will see; he will be satisfied. By his knowledge my righteous servant will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.12Therefore I will divide the many to him, and with the mighty he will divide spoil, because he poured out his nephesh to death, and with transgressors he was numbered, and he bore the sin of many, and for transgressors he interceded.