Isaiah 53:2 MSG/NIV - Online Parallel Bible
| The Message (MSG) | New International Version (NIV) |
| 2 The servant grew up before God - a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. | 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. |
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