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For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
    like a root out of dry ground.
He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him,
nor beauty that we should desire Him.
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief,
One from whom people hide their faces.
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.[a]
Surely He has borne our griefs[b]
    and carried our pains.
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
    struck by God, and afflicted.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:3 cf. Luke 18:31-33; John 1:10-11.
  2. Isaiah 53:4 Or illnesses; cf. Matt. 8:17.