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For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; [a]and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised, and [b]rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with [c]grief: and [d]as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our [e]griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:2 Or, that we should look upon him; nor beauty etc.
  2. Isaiah 53:3 Or, forsaken
  3. Isaiah 53:3 Hebrew sickness.
  4. Isaiah 53:3 Or, he hid as it were his face from us
  5. Isaiah 53:4 Hebrew sicknesses.

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(A)
    and like a root(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance(C) that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,(D) and familiar with pain.(E)
Like one from whom people hide(F) their faces
    he was despised,(G) and we held him in low esteem.

Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,(H)
yet we considered him punished by God,(I)
    stricken by him, and afflicted.(J)

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