The Fourth Servant Song
The Lord's Servant Suffers for Straying Sheep
13Look, my servant will succeed.[] He will rise. He will be lifted up. He will be highly exalted.
14Just as many were appalled at him[]— his appearance was so disfigured that he did not look like a man,
and his form was disfigured more than any other person—
15so he will sprinkle[] many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him,
because they will see something they had never been told before,
and they will understand something they had never heard before.
531Who has believed our report,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2He grew up before him like a tender shoot[] and like a root from dry ground.
He had no attractiveness and no majesty.
When we saw him, nothing about his appearance made us desire him.
3He was despised and rejected by men,
a man who knew grief,
who was well acquainted with suffering.
Like someone whom people cannot bear to look at,
he was despised,
and we thought nothing of him.
4Surely he was taking up our weaknesses,[] and he was carrying our sufferings.
We thought it was because of God
that he was stricken, smitten, and afflicted,
5but it was because of our rebellion that he was pierced.
He was crushed for the guilt our sins deserved.
The punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6We all have gone astray like sheep.
Each of us has turned to his own way,
but the Lord has charged all our guilt to him.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb he was led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep[] that is silent in front of its shearers, he did not open his mouth.
8He was taken away without a fair trial[] and without justice, and of his generation, who even cared?[] So, he was cut off from the land of the living.
He was struck because of the rebellion of my people.
9They would have assigned him a grave with the wicked,
but he was given a grave with the rich in his death,
because he had done no violence,
and no deceit was in his mouth.
10Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him
and to allow him to suffer.
Because you[] made his life a guilt offering, he will see offspring. He will prolong his days,
and the Lord's gracious plan will succeed in his hand.
11After his soul experiences anguish, he will see the light of life.[] He will provide satisfaction.[] Through their knowledge of him, my just servant will justify the many,
for he himself carried their guilt.[] 12Therefore I will give him an allotment among the great,[] and with the strong he will share plunder,
because he poured out his life to death,
and he let himself be counted with rebellious sinners.
He himself carried the sin of many,
and he intercedes for the rebels.
Jerusalem Will Have Many Children
541You barren woman who never gave birth, shout for joy.
Burst forth with shouts of joy!
Cry aloud, you who have never been in labor,
because the deserted woman has more children
than the woman who is married, says the Lord.
2Make more room for your tent.
Tell them to stretch out the curtains of your dwelling.
Do not hold back!
Make your tent ropes longer.
Make your tent stakes stronger,
3because you will spread out to the right and to the left.
Your offspring will take possession of nations,
and they will repopulate devastated cities.
4Do not be afraid,
because you will not be put to shame.
Do not be worried,
because you will not be embarrassed.
You will forget the shame of your youth,
and you will never remember the disgrace of your widowhood,
5because your Maker is your husband.
The Lord of Armies is his name.
Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
He is called the God of all the earth.
6Though you are like an abandoned wife with a wounded spirit,
though you are like the wife from a man's youth who has been rejected,
the Lord is calling you back, says your God.
7For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with great compassion I am gathering you.
8In a flood of anger I hid my face from you for a moment,
but in everlasting mercy I will have compassion on you,
says your Redeemer, the Lord.
9To me this is like the time of the waters of Noah.
As I swore that the waters of Noah will never again cover the earth,
so I am swearing that I will not be angry at you,
and I will not rebuke you.
10For even if the mountains are removed,
and the hills are overthrown,
my mercy will not be removed from you,
and my covenant of peace will not be overthrown,
says the Lord, who is showing you mercy.
