(Acts 8:26–40; 1 Peter 2:21–25)
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 stately form or majesty to attract us,no beauty that we should desire Him.3He was despised and rejected by men,a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.Like one from whom men hide their faces,He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.4Surely He took up our infirmitiesand carried our sorrows;†yet we considered Him stricken,struck down by God, and afflicted.5But He was pierced for our transgressions,He was crushed for our iniquities;the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him,and by His stripes we are healed.†6We all like sheep have gone astray,†each one has turned to his own way;and the LORD has laid upon Himthe iniquity of us all.The Ethiopian eunuch was reading this passage when Philip met him (Acts 8:32–33).
(Matthew 27:57–61; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56; John 19:38–42)
9He was assigned a grave with the wicked,and with a rich man in His death,although He had done no violence,nor was any deceit in His mouth.†The final stanza of the poem first explains why the servant suffered and was treated unjustly in the place of others; it then explains what the result of that obedience would be.