Isaiah 53b Commentary
Servant Wounded For Our Transgressions
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KEY THOUGHT: He was [l]bruised for our iniquities; [Isaiah 53:5b NKJV]
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Isaiah 53 NKJV
The Sin-Bearing Messiah
53 Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no [a]form or [b]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no [c]beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and [d]rejected by men,
A Man of [e]sorrows and acquainted with [f]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our [g]griefs
And carried our [h]sorrows;
Yet we [i]esteemed Him stricken,
[j]Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded[k] for our transgressions,
He was [l]bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes[m] we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord [n]has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from [o]prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 And [p]they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to [q]bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You 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.
11 [r]He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the [s]spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
Footnotes
a. Isaiah 53:2 Stately form
b. Isaiah 53:2 splendor
c. Isaiah 53:2 Lit. appearance
d. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
e. Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
f. Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness
g. Isaiah 53:4 Lit. sicknesses
h. Isaiah 53:4 Lit. pains
i. Isaiah 53:4 reckoned
j. Isaiah 53:4 Struck down
k. Isaiah 53:5 Or pierced through
l. Isaiah 53:5 crushed
m. Isaiah 53:5 Blows that cut in
n. Isaiah 53:6 Lit. has caused to land on Him
o. Isaiah 53:8 confinement
p. Isaiah 53:9 Lit. he or He
q. Isaiah 53:10 crush
r. Isaiah 53:11 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX From the labor of His soul He shall see light
s. Isaiah 53:12 plunder
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Isaiah 53b Commentary
He was taken from prison and from judgment. Verse 8. The first partition of Isaiah is nothing but a court session.
The LORD presides over the court session. Judah, Israel, and then the other nations are all judged. They are guilty. They are sentenced.
Of course, the entire world is brought to the same courtroom. Chapter 24. The verdict is the same as for Judah.
But Chapter 53 announces that it’s the Servant who goes in. He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows! Verse 4.
Whose sorrows?
Of course, the sorrows of Judah, Israel, and the other nations. The transgressions of humanity. The New Testament puts it this way: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23.
Yes, it’s a court session, but the strangest of them all. The just Judge has kept two doors open. The jail door is open, so is the grace door. We have constantly seen different versions of the grace door: Cleansing for a “white as snow” finish, the Mountain of the LORD, the Branch, Immanuel, the Son born to us, and lately, the Servant.
Chapters 52 and 53 put the pieces together.
For the wages of sin is death. We saw how the LORD promised total annihilation of wickedness in His proclamations against the nations, Judah and Israel included. Salvation isn’t for others; it’s for everyone!
Let individuals look to the Servant. It’s him who paid the price for your salvation!
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