Isaiah 53

1Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?Cross-references: Isa 40:5 · Isa 51:9 · Isa 52:10 · Isa 62:8 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 16:17 · +8 more

2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.Cross-references: Isa 11:1 · Isa 52:14 · Jer 23:5 · Ezek 17:22 · Zech 6:12 · Mark 6:3 · +13 more

3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Ps 22:6 · Ps 69:10 · Ps 69:19 · Ps 69:29 · Isa 49:7 · +28 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

4Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.Cross-references: Ps 69:26 · Isa 53:5 · Isa 53:11 · Matt 8:17 · Matt 26:37 · John 19:7 · +5 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Isa 53:6 · Isa 53:10 · Dan 9:24 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 20:28 · +13 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.Cross-references: Ps 69:4 · Ps 119:176 · Isa 53:10 · Isa 55:7 · Isa 56:11 · Ezek 3:18 · +7 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.Cross-references: Matt 26:63 · Matt 27:12 · Mark 14:61 · Mark 15:5 · Luke 23:9 · John 19:9 · +2 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

8He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?Cross-references: Ps 22:12 · Ps 69:12 · Isa 53:5 · Isa 53:12 · Dan 9:26 · Matt 1:1 · +6 more

9They made his 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.Cross-references: Isa 42:1 · Matt 27:57 · Mark 15:43 · Luke 23:50 · John 19:38 · 1Cor 15:4 · +5 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.Cross-references: Ps 16:9 · Ps 21:4 · Ps 22:30 · Ps 45:16 · Ps 69:26 · Ps 72:7 · +48 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.Cross-references: Isa 42:1 · Isa 45:25 · Isa 49:3 · Isa 53:4 · Isa 53:8 · Isa 53:12 · +27 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

12Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 22:14 · Isa 49:24 · Isa 52:13 · Isa 52:15 · +27 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →