Isaiah 53
53
1Who has believed what we have heard? # Or believed our report
And who has the arm of the Lord # Is 30:30; 40:10; 48:14; 51:9; 52:10; Lk 1:51; Ac 13:17 been revealed to? # Jn 12:38; Rm 10:16
2He grew up before Him like a young plant # Is 11:1
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at Him,
no appearance that we should desire Him. # Is 52:14
3He was despised and rejected by men, # Ps 22:6; Is 49:7; Lk 18:31-33
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. # Mk 8:31; Jn 1:10-11; Heb 4:15
He was like someone people turned away from; # Lit And like a hiding of faces from Him
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.
4Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses,
and He carried our pains; # Mt 8:17; 1Pt 2:21
but we in turn regarded Him stricken,
struck down by God, # Ps 69:26 and afflicted.
5But He was pierced because of our transgressions, # Is 53:8; Rm 4:25; 1Co 15:3; Heb 9:28
crushed because of our iniquities; # Is 1:4
punishment # Jr 2:30; Zph 3:2; Heb 5:8 for our peace was on Him,
and we are healed by His wounds. # 1Pt 2:24-25
6We all went astray like sheep; # Mt 18:12
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished Him
for # Or has placed on Him ; lit with the iniquity # Is 13:11 of us all. # 2Co 5:21; Col 2:14
7He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet He did not open His mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
He did not open His mouth. # Jr 11:19; Mt 26:63; 27:12-14; Lk 23:9; Jn 19:9; Ac 8:32-33; 1Pt 2:23
8He was taken away because of oppression and judgment;
and who considered His fate? # Or and as for His generation, who considered Him ?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
9They # DSS; MT reads He made His grave with the wicked
and with a rich man at His death, # Mt 27:57-60
although He had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully. # Heb 4:15; 1Pt 2:22; 1Jn 3:5
10Yet the Lord was pleased # Is 44:28; 55:11 to crush Him severely. # Or Him; He made Him sick. # Dt 29:22; Is 17:11
When # Or If You make Him a restitution offering, # Lv 5:1-19
He will see His seed, He will prolong His days,
and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished. # Is 46:10
11He will see it # DSS, LXX read see light out of His anguish,
and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.
My righteous # 1Jn 2:1 Servant # Is 42:1 will justify many, # Ac 13:39; Rm 5:18-19
and He will carry their iniquities.
12Therefore I will give Him # Or Him with the many as a portion,
and He will receive # Or receive with the mighty as spoil,
because He submitted Himself to death, # Mt 26:42; Jn 10:14-18; Php 2:6-8
and was counted among the rebels; # Lk 22:37
yet He bore the sin of many # Heb 9:28
and interceded for the rebels. # Lk 23:34; Rm 8:34; Heb 7:25
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Isaiah 53
53
1Who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
2My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows#53:4 Or Yet it was our sicknesses he carried; / it was our diseases. that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
7He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
8Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.#53:8a Greek version reads He was humiliated and received no justice. Compare Acts 8:33.
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.#53:8b Or As for his contemporaries, / who cared that his life was cut short in midstream? Greek version reads Who can speak of his descendants? / For his life was taken from the earth. Compare Acts 8:33.
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.
9He had done no wrong
and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal;
he was put in a rich man’s grave.
10But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him
and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
he will have many descendants.
He will enjoy a long life,
and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
11When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,
he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
for he will bear all their sins.
12I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier,
because he exposed himself to death.
He was counted among the rebels.
He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.
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