Dual Panel1Who could have believed what we have heard? To whom has the power of the LORD been revealed?
2He grew up before the LORD like a young plant whose roots are in parched ground; he had no beauty, no majesty to catch our eyes, no grace to attract us to him.
3He was despised, shunned by all, pain-racked and afflicted by disease; we despised him, we held him of no account, an object from which people turn away their eyes.
4Yet it was our afflictions he was bearing, our pain he endured, while we thought of him as smitten by God, struck down by disease and misery.
5But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the chastisement he bore restored us to health and by his wounds we are healed.
6We had all strayed like sheep, each of us going his own way, but the LORD laid on him the guilt of us all.
7He was maltreated, yet he was submissive and did not open his mouth; like a sheep led to the slaughter, like a ewe that is dumb before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
8He was arrested and sentenced and taken away, and who gave a thought to his fate -- how he was cut off from the world of the living, stricken to death for my people's transgression?
9He was assigned a grave with the wicked, a burial-place among felons, though he had done no violence, had spoken no word of treachery.
10Yet the LORD took thought for his oppressed servant and healed him who had given himself as a sacrifice for sin. He will enjoy long life and see his children's children, and in his hand the LORD's purpose will prosper.
11By his humiliation my servant will justify many; after his suffering he will see light and be satisfied; it is their guilt he bears.
12Therefore I shall allot him a portion with the great, and he will share the spoil with the mighty, because he exposed himself to death and was reckoned among transgressors, for he bore the sin of many and interceded for transgressors.