KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 53
The prophet, complaining of unbelief, accuses them of ignoring the prophecy of the cross. The pains Christ suffered for His own. The prophecy of the lawless, the good success.
1Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of Jehovah revealed?
2For He comes up before Him as a shoot, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form and no majesty that we should see Him, and not an appearance that we should desire Him.
3He is despised and abandoned of men, a Man of pains, and known of sickness, and as hiding our faces from Him, He being despised, and we did not value Him.
4Surely He has borne our sicknesses, and our pains, He bore them; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His wounds we ourselves are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have each man turned to his own way; and Jehovah made meet in Him the iniquity of all of us.
7He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is mute, and He opened not His mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall consider His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; from the transgression of My people, the stroke was to Him.
9And He made His grave with the wicked ones, and with a rich man in His death; though He had done no violence, and deceit was not in His mouth.
10But Jehovah pleased to crush Him, to make Him sick, so that if He should put His soul as a guilt offering, He shall see His seed; He shall prolong His days; and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand.
11He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul; He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, shall justify many, and He shall bear their iniquities.
12Therefore I will divide to Him with the great, and with the strong He shall divide the spoil; because He poured out His soul to death; and He was numbered with those transgressing; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for those transgressing.
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