Isaiah Chapter 53

A prophecy of the passion of Christ.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:
3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.
8 He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.
9 And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his mouth.
10 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.
11 Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 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 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.

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