Isaiah 53:1-3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 53
1 Who would believe what we have heard?[a]
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?(A)
2 He grew up like a sapling before him,(B)
like a shoot from the parched earth;
He had no majestic bearing to catch our eye,
no beauty to draw us to him.
3 He was spurned and avoided by men,
a man of suffering, knowing pain,
Like one from whom you turn your face,
spurned, and we held him in no esteem.(C)
Footnotes
- 53:1–10 What we have heard: this fourth servant oracle is introduced by words of the Lord (52:13–15) but is now continued by speakers who are not identified, perhaps those referred to in 52:15, perhaps Israel (cf. “struck for the sins of his people”—v. 8). The Lord is again the speaker in vv. 11–13.
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