(Acts 8:26–40; 1 Peter 2:21–25)

¹ Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?¹

1. Cited in John 12:38 and Romans 10:16

² He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

³ He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

⁴ Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows;¹ yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

1. LXX This One bears our sins and is pained for us; cited in Matthew 8:17 and 1 Peter 2:24

⁵ But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.¹

1. Cited in 1 Peter 2:24

⁶ We all like sheep have gone astray,¹ each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

1. Cited in 1 Peter 2:25

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

A Grave Assigned

(Matthew 27:57–61; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56; John 19:38–42)

⁸ By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living;¹ He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

1. LXX In humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth; cited in Acts 8:32–33.

⁹ He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.¹

1. Cited in 1 Peter 2:22

¹⁰ Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering,¹ He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

1. Or and though He makes His life a guilt offering

¹¹ After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life¹ and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

1. DSS (see also LXX); MT does not include the light of life.

¹² Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great,¹ and He will divide the spoils with the strong,² because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors.³ Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

1. Or many
2. Or numerous
3. Cited in Luke 22:37