He grew up before Him like a young plant(A)
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at Him,
no appearance that we should desire Him.(B)
He was despised and rejected by men,(C)
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.(D)
He was like someone people turned away from;[a]
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses,
and He carried our pains;(E)
but we in turn regarded Him stricken,
struck down by God,(F) and afflicted.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:3 Lit And like a hiding of faces from Him

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