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Description: This amazing passage from the Hebrew Prophets was written over 700
years before the birth of Jesus. It is found in Jewish Bibles today,
though it is left out of the weekly synagogue readings, as are many
other texts of the Bible. When people read Isaiah 53 without knowing
which part of the Bible it comes from, they often wrongly assume is
from the New Testament. Did Isaiah foresee the sufferings of Jesus
to pay for our sins?
Isaiah 52
The Exalted Servant
13 Behold,
My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly
exalted.
14 Just as many were astonished at you, My people, So
His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than
the sons of men.
15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings
will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told
them they will see, And what they had not heard they will
understand.
Isaiah 53
The Suffering Servant
1 Who has believed
our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2
For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out
of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should
look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to
Him.
3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He
was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely our griefs He
Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed
Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced
through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His
scourging we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the
iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was
afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to
slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So
He did not open His mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment He was
taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was
cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my
people, to whom the stroke was due?
9 His grave was assigned with
wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had
done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But
the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would
render Himself as 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.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their
iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the
great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He
poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the
transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded
for the transgressors.