13 Listen, my servant will prosper—

≈ he’ll be promoted and highly honoured.

14 Many people were horrified at you—his appearance was so disfigured

≈ and his body was so disfigured that he no longer looked like a man.

15 So he’ll startle many nations.

Kings will shut their mouths because even if they hadn’t been told about it,

≈ they’ll see and understand what they hadn’t heard about.[ref]

53 Who has believed our message,

≈ and who has Yahweh’s power been revealed to?[ref]

2 He grew in front of him like a young plant,

≈ and like a root out of the dry ground.

He had no fancy form or splendour to look at,

≈ and his appearance didn’t attract us to him.

3 He was despised and rejected by people—

≈ a man with a lot of pain and familiar with sickness

like someone that most people would look away from

≈ and despise him, rather than to esteem him.

4 Despite that, he’s borne our sicknesses

≈ and carried our pains.[ref]

We thought that he’d been struck down by God—

≈ attacked and made to suffer.

5 But he was pierced for our disobedience,

≈ and crushed for our wicked actions.

The punishment that gave us peace was on him,

≈ and we were healed thanks to his wounds.[ref]

6 We’ve all strayed away like sheep—

≈ everyone’s gone in their own direction[ref]

and Yahweh has placed all our disobedience onto him.

7 He was oppressed and tormented

but like a lamb being led away to be slaughtered,[ref] he didn’t open his mouth,

≈ and like a sheep that’s silent in front of its shearers, he didn’t open his mouth.

8 After oppression and judgement, he was taken away,

but how many of his peers even cared that he was cut off from the land of the living?

He was wounded because of the disobedience of my people.

9 His burial place was among the criminals,

and a rich man at his death,

although he’d committed no violent acts,

and had never spoken deceitfully.[ref]

10 But Yahweh desired to crush him—

he made him sick if it would make his life a guilt offering.

He will live long and see offspring,

and Yahweh’ plans will prosper through his work.

11 Due to his internal anguish, he’ll be able to see.

He’ll be satisfied with his knowledge.

My obedient servant will justify many,

and he will carry their disobedience.

12 Because of that, I’ll allocate a portion for him.

He’ll divide out the plunder to a powerful people

because he poured out his life resulting in his death.

He was included with the wicked,[ref]

and he bore the disobedience of many people,

and he intervened on behalf of the disobedient.