Isaiah 53 new living translation

Here is Isaiah 53 in the New Living Translation (NLT):

Isaiah 53

The Suffering Servant

53 Who has believed what we have heard? Who has seen the Lord's glory and believed it? But we have all gone astray; we have together become what is worthless; and there is no one who shows knowledge or understanding.

2 Yet the Lord thought, "Two things are against him. One is his generation; the other, the ruler of this world.

3 This is what the Lord says— the one who did this is to blame for Israel's sins: "He will bear their sins. I will give him a portion among the many, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because his death was a sacrifice to clear them from sin, and as a result, he will see his offspring, and prolong his life, and through him, God will give him the light of life to those in the land, and he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

4 His life was a sin offering to the Lord, and he will see his offspring and prolong his life, and through him, God will give him the light of life to those in the land.

5 And so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they had not heard, they will understand.

6 Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?

7 My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender shoot, and like a root in dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance—that we should desire him.

8 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.

9 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And because of our sorrows, he was tormented, 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.

10 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; stricken for the transgression of my people.

11 They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

12 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his life, and through him, God will give light to the nations.

13 And so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they had not heard, they will understand.

This passage is a prophetic description of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, who is referred to as the "Suffering Servant". It is a powerful and moving passage that speaks of Jesus' willingness to bear the sins of humanity and to bring light and salvation to the world.