Study Desk

Who has believed what we have heard?^[a] And who has the arm of the Lord ^(a) been revealed to?^(b)

He grew up before Him like a young plant^(c) 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.^(d)

He was despised and rejected by men,^(e) a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.^(f) He was like someone people turned away from;^[b] He was despised, and we didn't value Him.

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

But He was pierced because of our transgressions,⁽ⁱ⁾ crushed because of our iniquities;^(j) punishment^(k) for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.^(l)

We all went astray like sheep;^(m) we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for^[c] the iniquity⁽ⁿ⁾ of us all.^(o)

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her shearers, He did not open His mouth.^(p)

He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate?^[d] For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of my people's rebellion.

They^[e] made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man at His death,^(q) although He had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully.^(r)

Yet the Lord was pleased^(s) to crush Him severely.^[f](t) When^[g] You make Him a restitution offering,^(u) He will see His seed, He will prolong His days, and by His hand, the Lord 's pleasure will be accomplished.^(v)

He will see it^[h] out of His anguish, and He will be satisfied with His knowledge. My righteous^(w) Servant^(x) will justify many,^(y) and He will carry their iniquities.

Therefore I will give Him^[i] the many as a portion, and He will receive^[j] the mighty as spoil, because He submitted Himself to death,^(z) and was counted among the rebels;^(aa) yet He bore the sin of many^(ab) and interceded for the rebels.^(ac)