Servant Songs
Isaiah's songs about the suffering servant (currently incomplete)
17 verses
AlanWood
Dec. 3, 2025
English
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Isaiah 42.1NIV
Servant songs
“Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen one in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will bring justice to the nations. -
Isaiah 42.2NIV84
Servant songs
He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets.
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Isaiah 52.13NIV84
See,
my servant will act wisely;
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. -
Isaiah 52.14NIV84
Just as there were many who were appalled at him-
his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness- -
Isaiah 52.15NIV
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 have not heard, they will understand. -
Isaiah 53.1NIV
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? -
Isaiah 53.10NIV84
Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
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 days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
Isaiah 53:10 NIVUK -
Isaiah 53.11NIV84
After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities. -
Isaiah 53.12NIV84
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
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 53.2NIV
He 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. -
Isaiah 53.3NIV84
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 esteemed him not. NIV84
He 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. NIV -
Isaiah 53.4NIV84
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him,
and afflicted. NIV84
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him,
and afflicted. NIV -
Isaiah 53.5 🌱NIV
He 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. / 4 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 esteemed him not.
But 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.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, / each of us has turned to his own way; / and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. -
Isaiah 53.6NIV84
We all,
like sheep,
have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. NIV84
We 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. NIV2011 -
Isaiah 53.7NIV84
He 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 her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
He 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. NIV2011 -
Isaiah 53.8NIV84
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
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;
for the transgression of my people he was punished. NIV2011 -
Isaiah 53.9NIV84
He 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.
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