LII.--13. Behold! My Servant shall deal prudently, He shall be
exalted, and extolled, and be very high. 14. As many were astonied,
so marred more than any man: His visage and His form more than the
sons of men. 15. So shall He sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut
their mouths at Him, for that which hath not been told them shall
they see, and that which they had not heard shall they understand.
LIII.--1. Who hath believed our report? and the arm of the Lord to
whom hath it been revealed? 2. For He grew up as a tender plant
before Him, and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor
comeliness that we should regard Him, and no beauty that we should
desire Him. 3. He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief. And there was, as it were, the hiding of
the face from Him. He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
4. Surely our griefs HE hath bore, and our sorrows HE hath carried
them; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5. But HE was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement of OUR peace (or, our peace,
chastisement) was upon HIM; and with His stripes we are healed.
6. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to
his own way, and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7. He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His
mouth; as the lamb to the slaughter, He was brought; and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. 8. He was
taken from prison and from judgment, and who considereth His
generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the
transgression of my people was He stricken. 9. And they made His
grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, though He had
done no violence, neither was there deceit in His mouth. 10. Yet it
pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief.
When Thou shalt make His soul an offering for guilt (or, a
guilt-offering), He shall see (His) seed, He shall prolong (His)
days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11. Because of the travail of His soul He shall be satisfied; by His
knowledge shall My Righteous Servant justify the many, for their
iniquities He shall bear. 12. Therefore will I divide Him a portion
in the many [_i.e.,_ the many shall be the portion allotted to Him],
and with the strong shall He divide the spoil; for in that He poured
out His soul unto the death, and was numbered with the transgressors,
He Himself bare the sin of the many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.