Isaías 53

1 ¿Quién creyó a nuestro dicho? ¿Y el brazo de Jehová, sobre quien se ha manifestado?

Has anyone believed our news? Who has the Lord shown his power to?

2 Y subirá, como renuevo delante de él, y como raíz de tierra seca. No hay parecer en él, ni hermosura: le veremos, y sin parecer, tanto que le deseemos.

Like a young shoot he grew up before him, like a root growing up from dry ground. He had no beauty or glory to make us look at him; nothing about his appearance attracted us to him.

3 Despreciado, y desechado entre los hombres, varón de dolores, experimentado en flaqueza; y como que escondimos de él el rostro: menospreciado, y no le estimamos.

People despised him and rejected him. He was a man who really suffered and who experienced the deepest pain. We treated him like someone you turn away from in disgust—we despised him and had no respect for him.

4 Ciertamente nuestras enfermedades él las llevó, y él sufrió nuestros dolores; y nosotros le tuvimos a él por azotado, herido, y abatido de Dios.

However, he was the one who carried our weaknesses, he was loaded down with our pain—but we assumed he was being hit, beaten, and humiliated by God.

5 Mas él herido fue por nuestras rebeliones, molido por nuestros pecados: el castigo de nuestra paz sobre él; y por su llaga hubo cura para nosotros.

But he was wounded because of our rebellious acts, he was crushed because of our guilt. He experienced the discipline that brings us peace, and his wounds heal us.

6 Todos nosotros nos perdimos como ovejas, cada cual se apartó por su camino: mas Jehová traspuso en él el pecado de todos nosotros.

All of us have wandered off, just like sheep. Each of us has gone our own way, and the Lord allowed all our guilt to fall on him.

7 Angustiado él, y afligido, no abrió su boca: como cordero fue llevado al matadero; y como oveja delante de sus trasquiladores, enmudeció, y no abrió su boca.

He was persecuted and mistreated, but he didn't say anything. He was led like a lamb to be killed, and in the same way that a sheep about to be sheared is silent, he didn't say a word.

8 De la cárcel, y del juicio fue quitado; y su generación, ¿quién la contará? Porque fue cortado de la tierra de los vivientes: por la rebelión de mi pueblo plaga a él.

Through force and a death sentence he was killed—who cared what happened to him? He was executed, removed from the land of the living; he was killed because of my people's wickedness.

9 Y puso con los impíos su sepultura, y su muerte con los ricos: aunque nunca él hizo maldad, ni hubo engaño en su boca.

They buried him as if he was someone evil, giving him a grave among the rich, even though he hadn't done anything wrong, and he hadn't told any lies.

10 Con todo eso, Jehová le quiso moler, sujetándole a enfermedad. Cuando hubiere puesto su vida por expiación, verá linaje, vivirá por largos días, y la voluntad de Jehová será prosperada en su mano.

However, it was the Lord's will for him to be crushed and to suffer, for when he gives his life as a guilt offering he will see his descendants, he will have a long life, and what the Lord wants will be achieved through him.

11 Del trabajo de su alma verá, y se hartará. Y con su conocimiento justificará mi siervo justo a muchos; y él llevará las iniquidades de ellos.

After his suffering, he will see the results and be satisfied. Through his knowledge my servant who does what is right will set many right, and he will bear their sins.

12 Por tanto yo le daré parte con los grandes, y a los fuertes repartirá despojos; por cuanto derramó su vida a la muerte, y fue contado con los transgresores habiendo él llevado el pecado de muchos, y orado por los transgresores.

That's why I'm going to grant him a place among the great, and give him the prize of the victorious, because he poured out his life in death and was counted as one of the rebels. He took on himself the sins of many and asked forgiveness for the rebels.