1Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?2He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.3He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.4Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.5But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.6We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.7He 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 its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.8By oppression[1] and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.[2]9He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.10Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes[3] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.11After he has suffered, he will see the light of life[4] and be satisfied[5]; by his knowledge[6] my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.12Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[7] and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[8] because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 53
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1اما چه كم هستند كسانی كه اين حقيقت را باور میكنند! چه کم هستند كسانی كه خداوند اين حقيقت را به آنان آشكار ساخته است!2در نظر خدا او مانند درخت سبزی بود كه در زمين خشک و شورهزار روئيده و ريشه دوانده باشد؛ اما در نظر ما او زيبايی و جلوهای نداشت كه مشتاقش باشيم.3ما او را خوار شمرديم و رد كرديم، اما او درد و غم را تحمل كرد. همهٔ ما از او رو برگردانيديم. او خوار شد و ما هيچ اهميت نداديم.4اين دردهای ما بود كه او به جان گرفته بود، اين رنجهای ما بود كه او بر خود حمل میكرد؛ اما ما گمان كرديم اين درد و رنج مجازاتی است كه خدا بر او فرستاده است.5برای گناهان ما بود كه او مجروح شد و برای شرارت ما بود كه او را زدند. او تنبيه شد تا ما سلامتی كامل داشته باشيم. از زخمهای او ما شفا يافتيم.6ما همچون گوسفندانی كه آواره شده باشند، گمراه شده بوديم؛ راه خدا را ترک كرده به راههای خود رفته بوديم. با وجود اين، خداوند تقصيرها و گناهان همهٔ ما را به حساب او گذاشت!7با او با بیرحمی رفتار كردند، اما او تحمل كرد و زبان به شكايت نگشود. او را مانند بره به كشتارگاه بردند؛ و او همچون گوسفندی كه نزد پشم برندهاش بیزبان است، خاموش ايستاد و سخنی نگفت.8به ناحق او را به مرگ محكوم كرده، كشتند و مردم نفهميدند كه او برای گناهان آنها بود كه كشته میشد بلی، او به جای مردم مجازات شد.9هنگامی كه خواستند او را همراه خطاكاران دفن كنند، او را در قبر مردی ثروتمند گذاشتند؛ اما هيچ خطايی از او سر نزده بود و هيچ حرف نادرستی از دهانش بيرون نيامده بود.10خداوند میفرمايد: «اين خواست من بود كه او رنج بكشد و بميرد. او جانش را قربانی كرد تا آمرزش گناهان به ارمغان آورد، بنابراين صاحب فرزندان بیشمار خواهد شد. او زندگی را از سر خواهد گرفت[1] و ارادهٔ من به دست او اجرا خواهد شد.11هنگامی كه ببيند عذابی كه كشيده چه ثمری به بار آورده، راضی و خشنود خواهد شد. خدمتگزار عادل من بار گناهان بسياری از مردم را به دوش خواهد گرفت و من به خاطر او آنها را خواهم بخشيد.12به او مقامی بزرگ و قدرتی عظيم خواهم داد، زيرا او خود را فدا كرد، از خطاكاران محسوب شد، بار گناهان بسياری را بر دوش گرفت و برای خطاكاران شفاعت كرد.»