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Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made 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.
Isaiah 53:10 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB Yet 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.
  • KJV Yet 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.
  • NKJV Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You 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.
  • NASB ¶But the Lord desired To crush Him, causing Him grief; If He renders 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.
  • NLT But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.

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Quick answer

It was the LORD's will to crush him as a guilt offering, yet he will see offspring and prolong his days. It matters because God purposed the Servant's death and crowns it with resurrection life and fruitfulness.

Overview

Astonishingly, the Servant's suffering accords with God's saving plan; his soul becomes a 'sin offering' that satisfies divine justice. Beyond death, he will 'see his offspring' and 'prolong his days,' language pointing past the grave to resurrection and a redeemed people. The cross was no accident but the deliberate, gracious will of God to save through the Servant's sacrifice.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 40

  • 2 Cor 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Rom 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
  • Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
  • Zech 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
  • Eph 1:5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
  • Isa 53:3–6He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
  • Heb 10:6–12In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
  • 1 Jn 4:9–10This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
  • Isa 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Heb 13:10–12We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
  • Rev 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • Rom 6:9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.
  • 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
  • Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  • Rom 8:8Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
  • Luke 15:23–24Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.
  • Isa 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
  • Luke 15:5–7And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
  • John 6:37–40Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
  • John 12:24Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
  • Matt 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
  • Ps 72:17May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.
  • Dan 7:13–14In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence.
  • Luke 1:33and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”
  • Heb 7:27Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.
  • Ezek 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
  • Zeph 3:17The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
  • Ps 149:4For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.
  • Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  • Acts 2:24–28But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
  • Eph 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
  • Ezek 37:25They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
  • Mic 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
  • Ps 85:10–12Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
  • Jer 32:41Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
  • Heb 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
  • Isa 55:11–13so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
  • Heb 2:13And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And once again: “Here am I, and the children God has given Me.”
  • Ps 147:11The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
  • Ps 89:29I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 53:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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