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⁴Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried;

Whereas we did esteem him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵But he was wounded because of our transgressions,

He was crushed because of our iniquities:

The chastisement of our welfare was upon him,

And with his stripes we were healed.

⁶All we like sheep did go astray,

We turned every one to his own way;

And the Lord hath made to light on him

The iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed, though he humbled himself

And opened not his mouth;

As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

And as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb;

Yea, he opened not his mouth.

⁸By oppression and judgment he was taken away,

And with his generation who did reason?

For he was cut off out of the land of the living,

For the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due.

⁹And they made his grave with the wicked,

And with the rich his tomb;

Although he had done no violence,

Neither was any deceit in his mouth.'

 

¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to crush him by disease;

To see if his soul would offer itself in restitution,

That he might see his seed, prolong his days,

And that the purpose of the Lord might prosper by his hand:

¹¹Of the travail of his soul he shall see to the full, even My servant,

Who by his knowledge did justify the Righteous One to the many,

And their iniquities he did bear.

¹²Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great,

And he shall divide the spoil with the mighty;

Because he bared his soul unto death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

Yet he bore the sin of many,

And made intercession for the transgressors.

 

54Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear,

Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail;

For more are the children of the desolate

Than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

²Enlarge the place of thy tent,

And let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations, spare not;

Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

³For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left;

And thy seed shall possess the nations,

And make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

⁴Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed.

Neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame;

For thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,

And the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.

⁵For thy Maker is thy husband,

The Lord of hosts is His name;

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