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Isaiah 53

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1 κύριε τίς ἐπίστευσεν τῇ ἀκοῇ ἡμῶν καὶ ὁ βραχίων κυρίου τίνι ἀπεκαλύφθη 2 ἀνηγγείλαμεν ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὡς παιδίον ὡς ῥίζα ἐν γῇ διψώσῃ οὐκ ἔστιν εἶδος αὐτῷ οὐδὲ δόξα καὶ εἴδομεν αὐτόν καὶ οὐκ εἶχεν εἶδος οὐδὲ κάλλος 3 ἀλλὰ τὸ εἶδος αὐτοῦ ἄτιμον ἐκλεῖπον παρὰ πάντας ἀνθρώπους ἄνθρωπος ἐν πληγῇ ὢν καὶ εἰδὼς φέρειν μαλακίαν ὅτι ἀπέστραπται τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἠτιμάσθη καὶ οὐκ ἐλογίσθη 4 οὗτος τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν φέρει καὶ περὶ ἡμῶν ὀδυνᾶται καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐλογισάμεθα αὐτὸν εἶναι ἐν πόνῳ καὶ ἐν πληγῇ καὶ ἐν κακώσει 5 αὐτὸς δὲ ἐτραυματίσθη διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν καὶ μεμαλάκισται διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν παιδεία εἰρήνης ἡμῶν ἐ{P'} αὐτόν τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς ἰάθημεν 6 πάντες ὡς πρόβατα ἐπλανήθημεν ἄνθρωπος τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ ἐπλανήθη καὶ κύριος παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ἡμῶν

1 What credence for such news as ours? Whom reaches it, this new revelation of the Lord’s strength?[1] 2 He will watch this servant of his appear among us, unregarded as[2] brushwood shoot, as a plant in waterless soil; no stateliness here, no majesty, no beauty, as we gaze upon him, to win our hearts. 3 Nay, here is one despised, left out of all human reckoning; bowed with misery, and no stranger to weakness; how should we recognize that face?[3] How should we take any account of him, a man so despised? 4 Our weakness, and it was he who carried the weight of it, our miseries, and it was he who bore them.[4] A leper, so we thought of him, a man God had smitten and brought low; 5 and all the while it was for our sins he was wounded, it was guilt of ours crushed him down; on him the punishment fell that brought us peace, by his bruises we were healed. 6 Strayed sheep all of us, each following his own path; and God laid on his shoulders our guilt, the guilt of us all.

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Quis credidit auditui nostro?
et brachium Domini cui revelatum est? 2
Et ascendet sicut virgultum coram eo,
et sicut radix de terra sitienti.
Non est species ei, neque decor,
et vidimus eum,
et non erat aspectus, et desideravimus eum: 3
despectum, et novissimum virorum,
virum dolorum, et scientem infirmitatem,
et quasi absconditus vultus ejus et despectus,
unde nec reputavimus eum. 4
Vere languores nostros ipse tulit,
et dolores nostros ipse portavit;
et nos putavimus eum quasi leprosum,
et percussum a Deo, et humiliatum. 5
Ipse autem vulneratus est propter iniquitates nostras;
attritus est propter scelera nostra:
disciplina pacis nostræ super eum,
et livore ejus sanati sumus. 6
Omnes nos quasi oves erravimus,
unusquisque in viam suam declinavit:
et posuit Dominus in eo
iniquitatem omnium nostrum.

7 καὶ αὐτὸς διὰ τὸ κεκακῶσθαι οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείροντος αὐτὸν ἄφωνος οὕτως οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ 8 ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει ἡ κρίσις αὐτοῦ ἤρθη τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται ὅτι αἴρεται ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνομιῶν τοῦ λαοῦ μου ἤχθη εἰς θάνατον 9 καὶ δώσω τοὺς πονηροὺς ἀντὶ τῆς ταφῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς πλουσίους ἀντὶ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἀνομίαν οὐκ ἐποίησεν οὐδὲ εὑρέθη δόλος ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ 10 καὶ κύριος βούλεται καθαρίσαι αὐτὸν τῆς πληγῆς ἐὰν δῶτε περὶ ἁμαρτίας ἡ ψυχὴ ὑμῶν ὄψεται σπέρμα μακρόβιον καὶ βούλεται κύριος ἀφελεῖν 11 ἀπὸ τοῦ πόνου τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ δεῖξαι αὐτῷ φῶς καὶ πλάσαι τῇ συνέσει δικαιῶσαι δίκαιον εὖ δουλεύοντα πολλοῖς καὶ τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν αὐτὸς ἀνοίσει 12 διὰ τοῦτο αὐτὸς κληρονομήσει πολλοὺς καὶ τῶν ἰσχυρῶν μεριεῖ σκῦλα ἀν{Q'} ὧν παρεδόθη εἰς θάνατον ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνόμοις ἐλογίσθη καὶ αὐτὸς ἁμαρτίας πολλῶν ἀνήνεγκεν καὶ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν παρεδόθη

7 A victim? Yet he himself bows to the stroke;[5] no word comes from him. Sheep led away to the slaughter-house, lamb that stands dumb while it is shorn; no word from him. 8 Imprisoned, brought to judgement, and carried off, he, whose birth is beyond our knowing; numbered among the living no more! Be sure it is for my people’s guilt I have smitten him.[6] 9 Takes he leave of the rich, the godless, to win but a grave, to win but the gift of death;[7] he, that wrong did never, nor had treason on his lips! 10 Ay, the Lord’s will it was, overwhelmed he should be with trouble. His life laid down for guilt’s atoning, he shall yet be rewarded; father of a long posterity, instrument of the divine purpose; 11 for all his heart’s anguish, rewarded in full. The Just One, my servant; many shall he claim for his own, win their acquittal, on his shoulders bearing their guilt. 12 So many lives ransomed, foes so violent baulked of their spoil! Such is his due, that gave himself up to death, and would be counted among the wrong-doers; bore those many sins, and made intercession for the guilty.

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Oblatus est quia ipse voluit,
et non aperuit os suum;
sicut ovis ad occisionem ducetur,
et quasi agnus coram tondente se obmutescet,
et non aperiet os suum. 8
De angustia, et de judicio sublatus est.
Generationem ejus quis enarrabit?
quia abscissus est de terra viventium:
propter scelus populi mei percussi eum. 9
Et dabit impios pro sepultura,
et divitem pro morte sua,
eo quod iniquitatem non fecerit,
neque dolus fuerit in ore ejus. 10
Et Dominus voluit conterere eum in infirmitate.
Si posuerit pro peccato animam suam,
videbit semen longævum,
et voluntas Domini in manu ejus dirigetur. 11
Pro eo quod laboravit anima ejus,
videbit et saturabitur.
In scientia sua justificabit
ipse justus servus meus multos,
et iniquitates eorum ipse portabit. 12
Ideo dispertiam ei plurimos,
et fortium dividet spolia,
pro eo quod tradidit in mortem animam suam,
et cum sceleratis reputatus est,
et ipse peccata multorum tulit,
et pro transgressoribus rogavit.

[1] Cf. Rom. 10.16.

[2] ‘Unregarded as’; in the original, simply ‘like’, but this sense appears most probable, in view of what follows. The second part of the verse may also be interpreted as meaning, ‘there is no stateliness, no majesty here to catch our eyes, no beauty to win our hearts’.

[3] Literally, ‘his face was as it were hidden’. In the Hebrew text, it is not clear whether the face of the Servant is hidden from the onlookers, or theirs (in disgust) from him.

[4] Mt. 8.17.

[5] Literally, according to the Latin version, ‘He has been offered up because he himself willed it’. The meaning of the Hebrew text seems to be rather, ‘he has been cruelly treated, and all the while he abased himself’.

[6] The beginning of this verse in the Hebrew text runs literally, ‘He was taken away from the restraint and from judgement, and his generation—who will meditate?’ The meaning usually given to the passage uses almost every word in a strange sense, and it seems probable that there has been a corruption in the text; cf. the Septuagint Greek version, quoted in Ac. 8.33.

[7] The Hebrew text here yields a more simple translation, ‘He (God) gave him burial with the wicked, and with the rich (man) in his death’; but the bearing of the phrase is difficult to determine. The Latin can only be interpreted (on the lines of verse 3 above) as meaning that the Servant renounced all fellowship with the wicked and the rich in order to win himself a felon’s grave.

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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
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