For He grew up before Him like a (A)tender [a]shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has (B)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
He was (C)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of [b]great pain and (D)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was (E)despised, and we had no (F)regard for Him.

However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself (G)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by (H)God, and humiliated.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:2 Lit suckling
  2. Isaiah 53:3 Lit pains

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