1. Who hath believed our report?
And to whom is Jehovah's arm revealed?
2. For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a sprout out of dry ground.
He hath no form nor comeliness that we should look up to Him,
No beauty that we should take pleasure in Him.
3. He is despised and rejected of men,
A man of sorrows, well acquainted with sickness;
And like one hiding his face before us,
He was despised and we esteemed Him not.
4. And yet it was our own sickness that He bore,
And our sorrows that He loaded upon Himself.
But we supposed He was punished,
Smitten of God and tormented!
5. Oh, no! He was wounded for our transgressions,
Bruised for our iniquities,
Chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And with His stripes we are made whole.
6. All we like sheep have gone astray,
We have turned every one to his own way,
And Jehovah made the guilt of us all to meet upon Him.
7. He was oppressed, and yet He humbled Himself,
And He opened not His mouth, like a lamb that is brought
to the slaughter,
And as a sheep is dumb before her shearers,
So He opened not His mouth.
8. He was dragged to punishment by violence, and yet by
process of law;
And who of the men of His generation took it to heart,
That He was cut off from the land of the living,
That the stroke for my people's transgression fell upon Him!
9. They appointed Him His grave with criminals
(Still He was with a rich man in His death!).
Although He had done no wrong,
Neither was any deceit in His mouth.
10. And yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise Him;
He laid sickness upon Him.
But when He has made over His soul as a sin-offering,
He shall see offspring; He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in His hands!