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1 Has anyone believed our news? Who has the Lord shown his power to?
2 Like a young shoot he grew up before him, like a root growing up from dry ground. He had no beauty or glory to make us look at him; nothing about his appearance attracted us to him.
3 People despised him and rejected him. He was a man who really suffered and who experienced the deepest pain. We treated him like someone you turn away from in disgust—we despised him and had no respect for him.
4 However, he was the one who took up our weaknesses and loaded himself down with our pain—but we assumed he was being hit, beaten, and humiliated by God.
5 But he was wounded because of our rebellious acts, he was crushed because of our guilt. He experienced the discipline that brings us peace, and his wounds heal us.
6 All of us have wandered off, just like sheep. Each of us has gone our own way, and the Lord allowed all our guilt to fall on him.
7 He was persecuted and mistreated, but he didn't say anything. He was led like a lamb to be killed, and in the same way that a sheep about to be sheared is silent, he didn't say a word.
8 Through force and a death sentence he was killed —who cared what happened to him? He was executed, removed from the land of the living; he was killed because of my people's wickedness.
9 They buried him as if he was someone evil, giving him a rich man's grave, even though he hadn't done anything wrong, and he hadn't told any lies.
10 However, it was the Lord's will for him to be crushed and to suffer, for when he gives his life as a guilt offering he will see his descendants, he will have a long life, and what the Lord wants will be achieved through him.
11 After his suffering, he will see the results and be satisfied. Through his knowledge my servant who does what is right will set many right, and he will bear their sins.
12 That's why I'm going to grant him a place among the great, and give him the prize of the victorious, because he poured out his life in death and was counted as one of the rebels. He took on himself the sins of many and asked forgiveness for the rebels.
Chapter themes
Qui a cru ? — Qui a cru à notre prédication ?
Le bras de l'Éternel — le bras de l'Eternel
À qui révélé ? — a-t-il été révélé ?
Un rejeton d'une terre sèche — Il a grandi devant lui comme une jeune plante
Sans beauté ni éclat — Il n'avait ni beauté ni splendeur propre à attirer nos regards
Méprisé et délaissé — Méprisé et délaissé par les hommes
Homme de douleur — homme de douleur, habitué à la souffrance
Aucun cas de lui — nous n'avons fait aucun cas de lui
Il a porté nos souffrances — ce sont nos souffrances qu'il a portées
Considéré comme puni — nous l'avons considéré comme puni, frappé par Dieu
Méprisé et humilié — frappé par Dieu et humilié
Un homme de douleur — c'est de nos douleurs qu'il s'est chargé
Une fausse estime — Et nous, nous l'avons considéré
Blessé pour nos fautes — était blessé
Brisé par la souffrance — brisé
La paix par sa punition — la punition qui nous donne la paix
Il a porté nos maux — c'est par ses blessures que nous sommes guéris
Pourtant c'est lui — Mais lui
Des brebis égarées — brebis égarées
Chacun sa propre voie — chacun suivait sa propre voie
Nos fautes sur lui — l'Eternel a fait retomber sur lui nos fautes à tous
Mort pour nos péchés — l'Eternel a fait retomber sur lui nos fautes
Le serviteur brisé — sur lui
Le châtiment porté — nos fautes à tous
Il n'ouvre pas la bouche — pas ouvert la bouche
L'agneau mené à l'abattoir — Pareil à un agneau qu'on mène à l'abattoir
Contrainte et jugement — sous la contrainte et sous le jugement
Qui dira sa génération — et dans sa génération qui s'est inquiété de son sort?
Retranché des vivants — exclu de la terre des vivants
Frappé pour le peuple — frappé à cause de la révolte de mon peuple
Notes and references
The way these questions are framed, they expect a negative response: “No one.” The verses that follow explain why nobody paid attention to the news.
“Peace”: often in the sense of “well-being” rather than the absence of war. In addition, the word “discipline” in this verse is more to do with training a child than punishment, as the Septuagint translators recognized.
The Septuagint ends this verse “the Lord gave him up for our sins.” The word translated “fall on” is variously translated, for example: approach, came, met, touched, pray to, interceded, pleaded etc.
The Septuagint has: “In humiliation his judgment was taken away.” See Acts 8:33. Taken away refers to being taken away in death.
“Descendants”: literally, “seed,” or better, “posterity.” This is to be taken in the wider view of the many who become “children of God.”