He had no beauty or
majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his
appearance that we should desire him.
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. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our
sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him and afflicted. But
he was pierced for our
transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.