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Isaiah 53:1–3 – Despised Servant

What happens: The report is not believed. The Servant grows like a root out of dry ground, without outward beauty. He is despised and rejected, a man of sorrows.

What it means: God’s way offends human expectations. The Holy One chooses humble means to save, exposing our tendency to value appearances over truth.


Isaiah 53:4–6 – Substitution and Peace

What happens: He bears our griefs and carries our sorrows. He is pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities. The Lord lays on Him the iniquity of us all.

What it means: At the heart of salvation stands substitution. God’s justice and mercy meet as the Servant takes our sin so we receive peace.


Isaiah 53:7–9 – Silent Sufferer, Innocent Grave

What happens: Like a lamb to the slaughter, He remains silent. By oppression and judgment He is taken away, yet He has done no violence. He is assigned a grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death.

What it means: The Servant submits to unjust suffering without sin. God’s holy plan moves through apparent defeat toward victory.


Isaiah 53:10–12 – Will of the Lord Prospers

What happens: It pleases the Lord to crush Him, yet He sees His offspring and prolongs His days. By His knowledge He makes many righteous and bears their iniquities. He is numbered with transgressors and intercedes for them.

What it means: God brings life out of death. In Christ, the Servant’s atoning work justifies many, revealing faithful love and holy righteousness.


Application

  • Trust the Servant who bears sin and gives peace.
  • Reject surface judgments and receive God’s humble wisdom.
  • Live as people made righteous, interceding for others.

Bible

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 of 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 of God, and afflicted.

5But he was wounded for our transgressions, 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 openeth not his mouth.

8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of 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 will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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