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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/52.htm" title="Isaiah 52">◄</a> Isaiah 53 <a href="../isaiah/54.htm" title="Isaiah 54">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"><div class="poetry"> <p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Who has believed what we have heard?</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">And to whom has the arm of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> been revealed?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>For he grew up before him like a young plant,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and like a root out of dry ground;</span></span><br /><span class="text">he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He was despised and rejected by others;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a man of suffering<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22601a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and acquainted with infirmity;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and as one from whom others hide their faces<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22601b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he was despised, and we held him of no account.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Surely he has borne our infirmities</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and carried our diseases;</span></span><br /><span class="text">yet we accounted him stricken,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">struck down by God, and afflicted.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>But he was wounded for our transgressions,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">crushed for our iniquities;</span></span><br /><span class="text">upon him was the punishment that made us whole,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and by his bruises we are healed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>All we like sheep have gone astray;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">we have all turned to our own way,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has laid on him</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the iniquity of us all.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">yet he did not open his mouth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so he did not open his mouth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>By a perversion of justice he was taken away.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Who could have imagined his future?</span></span><br /><span class="text">For he was cut off from the land of the living,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">stricken for the transgression of my people.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>They made his grave with the wicked</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and his tomb<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22607c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> with the rich,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22607d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">although he had done no violence,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and there was no deceit in his mouth.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Yet it was the will of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to crush him with pain.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22608e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text">When you make his life an offering for sin,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22608f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;</span></span><br /><span class="text">through him the will of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> shall prosper.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>Out of his anguish he shall see light;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22609g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">The righteous one,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22609h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> my servant, shall make many righteous,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and he shall bear their iniquities.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;</span></span><br /><span class="text">because he poured out himself to death,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and was numbered with the transgressors;</span></span><br /><span class="text">yet he bore the sin of many,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and made intercession for the transgressors.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:3">Isaiah 53:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>a man of sorrows</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:3">Isaiah 53:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>as one who hides his face from us</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:9">Isaiah 53:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms: MT <i>and in his death</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:9">Isaiah 53:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>with a rich person</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:10">Isaiah 53:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>by disease</i>; meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:10">Isaiah 53:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:11">Isaiah 53:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Mss: MT lacks <i>light</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 53:11">Isaiah 53:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>and he shall find satisfaction. Through his knowledge, the righteous one</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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