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He was oppressed and he was afflicted,
    yet he didn’t open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    as[a] a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
        so he did not open[b] his mouth.

“From detention and[c] judgment he was taken away[d]
    and who can even think about his descendants?[e]
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
    he was stricken[f] for the transgression of my people.
Then they made[g] his grave with the wicked,
    and with rich people[h] in his death,[i]
although he had committed no violence,
    nor was there any deceit in his mouth.”

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  1. Isaiah 53:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and as
  2. Isaiah 53:7 So 1QIsaa; MT reads does not open
  3. Isaiah 53:8 So 1QIsaa MT; 1QIsab lacks and
  4. Isaiah 53:8 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 1QIsab reads judgment they took him away
  5. Isaiah 53:8 Or future
  6. Isaiah 53:8 So 1QIsaa; MT reads living, an affliction
  7. Isaiah 53:9 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT read he made; LXX reads I will give
  8. Isaiah 53:9 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector MT read with a rich man
  9. Isaiah 53:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads deaths

He was oppressed(A) and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;(B)
he was led like a lamb(C) to the slaughter,(D)
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression[a] and judgment(E) he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;(F)
    for the transgression(G) of my people he was punished.[b]
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,(H)
    and with the rich(I) in his death,
though he had done no violence,(J)
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:8 Or From arrest
  2. Isaiah 53:8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?