Isaiah 53

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:11

‘From the travail of his soul he shall see (light) and shall be satisfied. By his humiliation shall my righteous servant make many to be accounted righteous, And he will bear their iniquities.’ This is summarising what has gone before in the last verse, and reminding us of the great travail through which the Servant must go. The travail of His soul is described in Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:3-5; Isaiah 53:7-8. He will be in great travail, but from that travail He will see success (or fruit) as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:12

‘Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great (or ‘the many’), And he will divide the spoil with the strong, Because he has poured out his soul to death, And was numbered with the transgressors. Yet he bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.’ And because of what He has achieved He will come alive again and be given the spoils of victory. The intention here is in order to stress that He will now no longer be the humiliated teacher, but the Mighty God (Isaiah... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:1-12

Isaiah 52:13– Isaiah 53:12 . The Vindication of the Servant of Yahweh (the fourth of the Songs of the Servant of Yahweh). Isaiah 52:13-Ezra : . Yahweh announces that His Servant Israel shall be raised to a position so glorious that, even as many were appalled at his pitiable plight, so nations shall do him homage and kings be reverently silent in his presence, beholding so wonderful, so unheard-of a transformation. Isaiah 52:13 . shall deal wisely: translate “ prosper” ( mg.) , but probably... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53

ISAIAH CHAPTER 53 The incredulity of the Jews: the death of Christ, and the blessed effects thereof, Isaiah 53:1-11; his exaltation and glory, Isaiah 53:12. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:1

Who hath believed our report? the prophet having in the three last verses of the former chapter made a general report concerning the great and wonderful humiliation and exaltation of Christ, of which he intended more largely to discourse in this chapter, before he descended to particulars he thought fit to use this preface. Who, not only of the Gentiles, but even of the Jews, will believe the truth-of what I have said and must say? Few or none. The generality of them will never receive nor... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:2

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; and the reason or occasion why the Jews will so generally reject their Messiah, is because he shall not come into the world with secular pomp and power, like an earthly monarch, as they carnally and groundlessly imagined; but he shall grow up (or, spring up, Heb. ascend, to wit, out of the ground, as it follows, brought forth, and brought up) before him (before the unbelieving Jews, of whom he spake Isaiah... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected of men; accounted as the scum of mankind, as one unworthy of the company and conversation of all men. A man of sorrows; whose whole life was filled with, and in a manner made up of, an uninterrupted succession of sorrows and sufferings. Acquainted with grief; who had constant experience of and familiar converse with grievous afflictions; for knowledge is oft taken practically, or for experience, as Genesis 3:5; 2 Corinthians 5:21, and elsewhere. We hid as it were our... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:4

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: and whereas it may seem all unreasonable and incredible thing, that so excellent and glorious, and so innocent and just, a person should meet with this usage, it must be known that his griefs and miseries were not laid upon him for his own sake, but wholly and solely for the sake of sinful men, in whose stead he stood, and for whose sins he suffered, as it here follows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted; yet... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:5

But; but this was a most false and unrighteous sentence. He was wounded; which word comprehends all his pains and punishments, and his death among and above the rest. For our transgressions; not by them, which is expressed by another particle, not by the wickedness of the Jews; but for or because of them, as this particle commonly signifies, for the guilt of their sins, which he had voluntarily taken upon himself, and for the expiation of their sins, which was hereby purchased and procured of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:6

All we, all mankind, the Jews no less than the Gentiles, like sheep, which are simple and foolish creatures, and exceeding apt to straggle and lose themselves, have gone astray from God, and from the way of his precepts, in which he put our first parents, and in which he commanded us to walk. To his own way; in general, to the way and course of sin, which may well be called a man’s own way, as sins are called men’s own lusts, James 1:14; 2 Peter 3:3, and elsewhere, because sin is natural to us,... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:12

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:1-12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:6

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