See, my servant shall prosper,
he shall be raised high and greatly exalted.
Even as many were amazed at him --
so marred was his look beyond that of man,
and his appearance beyond that of mortals --
So shall he startle many nations,
because of him kings shall stand speechless;
For those who have not been told shall see,
those who have not heard shall ponder it.

Who would believe what we have
heard?
To whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed?
He grew up like a sapling before him,
like a shoot from the parched earth;
There was in him no stately bearing to make
us look at him,
nor apperance that would attract us
to him.
He was spurned and avoided by men;
a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,
One of whom men hide their faces,
spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Yet it was our infirmities that he bore,
our sufferings that he endured,
While we thought of him as stricken,
as one smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our offences,
crushed for our sins,
Upon him was the chastisement that makes
us whole,
by his stripes we were healed.
We had all gone astray like sheep,
each following his own way:
But the Lord laid upon him
the guilt of us all.
Though he was harshly treated, he submitted
and opened not his mouth;
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
or a sheep before the shearers,
he was silent and opened not his mouth.

Oppressed and condemned, he was
taken away,
and who would have thought any more of
his destiny?
When he was cut off from the land of
the living,
and smitten for the sin of his people,
A grave was assigned him among the wicked
and a burial place with evildoers,
Though he had done no wrong
nor spoken any falsehood.
But the Lord was pleased
to crush him in infirmity.

[Isaiah 52:13 - 53:12