The Servant’s Suffering and Exaltation

• 13 Look, my servant shall achieve success; he shall be exalted,
• and he shall be lifted up,
  • and he shall be very high.
  • 14 Just as many were appalled at you— such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement,
    • and his form beyond the sons of mankind—
  • 15 so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.[fn]
• For they shall see what has not been told them,
  • and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.
  • and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
  • 2 For[fn] he went[fn] up like a shoot before him, and like a root from dry ground.
• He had no form and no majesty that[fn] we should see him,
  • and no appearance that[fn] we should take pleasure in him.
  • 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with[fn] sickness,
• and like one from whom others hide their faces ,[fn] he was despised,
  • and we did not hold him in high regard.
  • 4 However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain,
• yet[fn] we ourselves assumed him stricken,
  • struck down by God and afflicted.
  • 5 But[fn] he was pierced[fn] because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities;
• the chastisement for[fn] our peace[fn] was upon him,
  • and by his wounds[fn] we were healed .[fn]
  • 6 All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way;
• and Yahweh let fall on him
  • the iniquity of us all.
  • 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet[fn] he did not open his mouth;
• he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter,
  • and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers,
• so[fn] he did not open his mouth.
• 8 He was taken by restraint of justice,and who concerned himself with his generation?
• For he was cut off from the land of the living;
  • he received a blow because of the transgression of my people.
  • 9 He made[fn] his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death,
• although he had done no violence,
  • and there was no deceit in his mouth.
  • 10 Yet[fn] Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he made him sick .[fn]
• If she[fn] places[fn] his life a guilt offering,[fn]
  • he will see offspring.
• He will prolong days,
  • and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.
  • 11 From the trouble of his life[fn] he will see;[fn] he will be satisfied.
• In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous,[fn]
  • and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.
  • 12 Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many,[fn] and with the strong ones he will divide bounty,
• because[fn] he poured his life out to death
  • and was counted with the transgressors;
• and[fn] he was the one who bore the sin of many
  • and will intercede for the transgressors.