Isaiah 53 WBT
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 hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
3He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5But he [was] wounded for our transgression, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death: because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12Therefore I will divide to him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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