We are sorry we can adduce no particular name on which to cast the responsibility of the following amended version. We have consulted very many of the most distinguished of those who have laboured to translate this, in some respects, very intricate passage, and what we have given must be considered mainly as an _amalgam_ of the joint labours of them all. We are far from thinking we have given the best version possible; and _perhaps_ the text itself, where the difficulty is peculiarly pressing, may yet be found susceptible of improvement:— ISAIAH. _Old Version_. _New Version_. Ch. lii. 13. Behold, my servant Ch. lii. 13. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be shall be prosperous; he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very exalted and extolled, and be high. magnified exceedingly. 14. As many were astonied at 14. As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred thee; (so marred was his visage more than any man, and his form more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: than the sons of men.) 15. So shall he sprinkle many 15. So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut nations; kings shall shut their their mouths at him: for _that_ mouths at him (_do him homage_); which had not been told them for that which had not been told shall they see; and _that_ which them have they seen, and that they had not heard shall they which they had not heard have consider. they considered: Ch. liii. 1. Who hath believed Ch. liii. 1. (Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord revealed? arm of the Lord been revealed?) 2. For he shall grow up before 2. And he grew up before him as him as a tender plant, and as a a tender plant, and as a root out root out of a dry ground: he hath of a land of drought: he hath no no form nor comeliness; and when form nor comeliness that we we shall see him, _there is_ no should see him, and no beauty beauty that we should desire him. that we should desire him. 3. He is despised and rejected 3. Despised and rejected of men; of men; a man of sorrows, and a man of sorrows, and acquainted acquainted with grief: and we hid with grief; and concealing as it as it were _our_ faces from him; were _his_ face from us; he was despised, and we esteemed despised, and we esteemed him him not. not. 4. Surely he hath borne our 4. Surely _it was_ our griefs griefs, and carried our sorrows; _that_ he bore; and our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, he carried them: but we esteemed smitten of God, and afflicted. him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5. But he _was_ wounded for our 5.