Isaiah 53 WEB
Summary: This is Isaiah's most famous Servant Song, describing one with no attractive appearance, despised and rejected, "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief" (v. 3), who was wounded for others' transgressions and bruised for their iniquities, bearing the chastisement that brought them peace, "and with his stripes we are healed" (v. 5). Like a sheep led to slaughter he was silent before his oppressors, cut off from the land of the living, though he had done no violence and spoken no deceit, his grave assigned with the wicked yet with the rich in his death. The chapter presents this suffering as the LORD's own will, an offering for sin through which the Servant will see his offspring, prolong his days, and justify many by bearing their iniquities. It closes declaring he will be given a portion with the great because he poured out his soul unto death, was numbered with transgressors, bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.
1Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?
2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
4Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
8He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
9They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
12Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
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