Isaiah 53 Meter Translated in English

Verse

Syllables

in Hebrew

Translation in English,

keeping Hebrew meter

Cum.

Total

52:13

8

Through Truth My Son Prospers, Rises!

 

 

8

And Carried, Exalted, Greatly!

 

52:14

9

Just as people, appalled up-at-You,

 

 

8

So too He, mashed-past-human sight!

 

 

9

The God-Man:

born(e), beyond sons of men!

 

 

42

 

42

52:15

9

Thus He sprays, shocks Gentiles

 up to Him

 

 

8

Kings shut their mouths in amazement!

 

 

9

For He Who was not told them, they see!

 

 

9

And He Whom they'd not heard, they well know!

 

 

35

 

77

53:1

9

Who has believed in our reporting?

 

 

9

To whom revealed, the Arm of the Lord?

 

53:2

9

He climbs like a sapling, before Him;

 

 

9

like a Root, born from Parched Promised Land!

 

 

4

Not God-man, Him!

 

 

4

So no Glory

 

 

4

will we then see!

 

 

4

No sight of Him

 

 

4

Will we desire!

 

 

56

 

133

53:3

8

Despised and rejected by men,

 

 

9

The Heartbreak Man well knows lovesick grief.

 

 

9

Hiding our face from The Hiding Place,

 

 

9

Despising, we didn't esteem Him

 

 

35

 

168

53:4

9

So true!  All our griefs, He carried them!

 

 

8

And all our heartbreaks, He bore them!

 

 

4

And we ourselves

 

 

4

did esteem Him

 

 

5

Stricken down, Smited

 

 

5

God, Violated!

 

 

35

 

203

53:5

8

He, stabbed! Born(e) from revolts:  ours!

 

 

8

He, crushed! Born(e) from twisting sins:  ours!

 

 

8

Our Penance to reconcile:  Him!

 

 

8

Sewn up in His Wounds, we are healed!

 

53:6

6

All of us, sheep!  Wander

 

 

6

Each to his own road, turns

 

 

12

So God intercepted through Him,

our twisting sins!

 

 

56

 

259

53:7

7

Oppressed, He!  Violated!

 

 

7

Yet He opens not His Mouth

 

 

7

Like a sheep to slaughter, led

 

 

8

Or a ewe, before her shearers

 

 

9

He is bound;  He opens not His Mouth.

 

53:8

9

Out from sterile cell and verdict, seized!

 

 

8

Re His Descendants, who narrates?

 

 

8

For cut out from The Land, His Lives!

 

 

7

My people's revolt, strikes Him!

 

 

70

 

329

53:9

9

So He bequeaths the wicked, His Grave

 

 

7

and to the rich, by His Deaths

 

 

6

By God, He did no wrong:

 

 

6

No deceit, in His Mouth!

 

 

28

 

357

53:10

9

For God delights to crush Him with grief

 

 

8

If He appoints for sin, His Soul

 

 

9

He will see seed of unending days

 

 

9

So God, Delighted, gains by His Hand!

 

 

35

 

392

53:11

5

Born(e) from His Soul's Pangs

 

 

4

He sees, He's filled!

 

 

5

Through Truth, He makes pure!

 

 

7

My Righteous Son, for people!

 

 

7

For their twisting sins, He bears!

 

 

28

 

420

53:12

8

I give them -- as plunder -- to Him;

 

 

8

He allots them, among the strong.

 

 

6

For their sakes, He poured out!

 

 

4

To death, His Soul!

 

 

5

With rebels, parcelled!

 

 

6

Peoples' sins, He carried!

 

 

5

For rebels, He blocked!

462

Sisyphus