Isaiah 53:1-9

1 1Who has believed what he has heard from us?[a] And to whom has 2the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, 3and like a root out of dry ground; 4he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 5He was despised and rejected[b] by men; a man of sorrows,[c] and acquainted with[d] grief;[e] and as one from whom men hide their faces[f] he was despised, and 6we esteemed him not.
4 7Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, 8smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 9But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, 10and with his stripes we are healed.
6 11All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; 12and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, 13yet he opened not his mouth; 14like a 15lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, 16who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked 17and with a rich man in his death, although 18he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

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Cross References 18

  • 1. Cited John 12:38; Romans 10:16
  • 2. See Isaiah 51:9
  • 3. Isaiah 11:1
  • 4. [Isaiah 52:14]
  • 5. Isaiah 49:7; [Psalms 22:6; Mark 9:12]
  • 6. [John 1:10, 11]
  • 7. [Matthew 8:17]
  • 8. Psalms 69:26
  • 9. [Romans 4:25]
  • 10. Cited 1 Peter 2:24
  • 11. Cited 1 Peter 2:25; [Jeremiah 50:6, 17]
  • 12. 2 Corinthians 5:21; [ver. 10; Colossians 2:14]
  • 13. Matthew 26:63; Mark 14:61; John 19:9; 1 Peter 2:23
  • 14. Cited Acts 8:32
  • 15. [Jeremiah 11:19]
  • 16. Isaiah 57:1
  • 17. Matthew 27:57, 60
  • 18. Cited 1 Peter 2:22; [Hebrews 4:15; 1 John 3:5]

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Or Who has believed what we have heard?
  • [b]. Or forsaken
  • [c]. Or pains; also verse 4
  • [d]. Or and knowing
  • [e]. Or sickness; also verse 4
  • [f]. Or as one who hides his face from us
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