Isaiah · 12 verses
Isaiah 53
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The servant is cut off from the land of the living, yet he will see his offspring and his days will be prolonged—a remarkably crowded future for a man whose descendants nobody can recount.
The suffering is misreadvv. 1–6
The servant grows like a tender shoot from dry ground, without the usual attractions of majesty or beauty, and the observers turn their faces from him. They take his suffering for God’s punishment, but the account immediately overturns that verdict: he is carrying their infirmities, sorrows, and iniquities. The sheep have wandered each into a private way, and the LORD lays all that wandering upon him.
Silence, burial, and an astonishing futurevv. 7–12
Oppressed and afflicted, the servant says nothing, proceeding like a lamb to slaughter and a sheep to shearing. He is taken away by oppression and judgment, cut off from the living, and assigned a grave with the wicked and with a rich man—a surprisingly busy burial arrangement for one who had done no violence and spoken no deceit. Yet the account does not leave him there: his soul becomes a guilt offering, he sees his offspring and the light of life, justifies many, bears their iniquities, receives a portion with the great, and intercedes for transgressors.
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Isa 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
Isa 53:2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
Isa 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Isa 53:4Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
Isa 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
Isa 53:9He was assigned a 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.
Isa 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
Isa 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 259 passages were voted onto 12 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 51 Peter 2:24–25He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 51 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 5Matthew 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- 52 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 5Romans 5:6–10For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- 4Matthew 8:17This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
- 1John 12:38This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
- 5Isaiah 53:10–12Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- 5Hebrews 10:14because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
- 61 Peter 2:25For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- 1Romans 10:16–17But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
- 5Romans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- 5Hebrews 10:10And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- 4Galatians 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 41 John 2:2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
- 51 Corinthians 15:3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
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