1 Who would believe what we have heard?To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up like a sapling before him,like a shoot from the parched earth;He had no majestic bearing to catch our eye,no beauty to draw us to him.
3 He was spurned and avoided by men,a man of suffering, knowing pain,Like one from whom you turn your face,spurned, and we held him in no esteem.
4 Yet it was our pain that he bore,our sufferings he endured.We thought of him as stricken,struck down by God and afflicted,
5 But he was pierced for our sins,crushed for our iniquity.He bore the punishment that makes us whole,by his wounds we were healed.
6 We had all gone astray like sheep,all following our own way;But the Lord laid upon himthe guilt of us all.
7 Though harshly treated, he submittedand did not open his mouth;Like a lamb led to slaughteror a sheep silent before shearers,he did not open his mouth.