The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Grief” it comes from the Hebrew Word “choli” which means “grief, sickness.”
Isaiah delivers Scripture’s most detailed, moving prophecy of the suffering servant’s substitutionary death. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Isaiah 53.
Isaiah asks who has believed their report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed, describing how he shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground, having no form nor comeliness, and when they shall see him, there being no beauty that they should desire him, being despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with “grief,” “choli” in Hebrew, and they hid as it were their faces from him, he was despised, and they esteemed him not. Isaiah delivers this chapter’s central, remarkable declaration, “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But 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. All 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.” Isaiah continues describing his silent, willing suffering, “He 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,” describing how he was cut off out of the land of the living, made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, He has put him to grief, when He shall 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, closing with the promise that he shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied, by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities, this chapter standing among Scripture’s most profound, detailed prophecies of Christ’s substitutionary atonement, written centuries before crucifixion even existed as a form of execution.
This chapter’s remarkable declaration, he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, and with his stripes we are healed, stands as perhaps the Old Testament’s single clearest, most detailed prophecy of Christ’s substitutionary suffering and atonement. Its poignant description, all we like sheep have gone astray, yet the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all, captures the gospel’s essential message with striking, moving clarity centuries before its actual historical fulfillment.
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