Isaiah 53:10

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.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The prophet Isaiah speaks of the LORD's Servant within the fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 52:13–53:12), at the pivot between the Servant's burial (v. 9) and His vindication (v. 11).

The words — חָפֵץ (chafets, "he desired") carries the verse: the LORD does not merely permit the Servant's suffering but actively wills it. This is the same verb used of God's word accomplishing His purpose (Isaiah 55:11).

The thread — The pattern of God's active initiative in the Servant's substitutionary death recurs in 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:32, and Galatians 3:13.

Why it lands — The verse removes the Servant's suffering from the category of mere human injustice and places it under divine decree, asking the reader to reckon with a God who wills the death of His own Servant as a guilt offering.

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The Hebrew words

וַיהוָ֞הva./Yah.wehand/ Yahweh חָפֵ֤ץcha.Fetzhe desired דַּכְּאוֹ֙da.ke.'/Oto crush/ him הֶֽחֱלִ֔יhe.che.Lihe made [him] sick אִם־'im-if תָּשִׂ֤יםta.Simit will make אָשָׁם֙'a.Shama guilt offering נַפְשׁ֔וֹnaf.Sh/oself/ his יִרְאֶ֥הyir.'Ehhe will see זֶ֖רַעZe.ra'offspring יַאֲרִ֣יךְya.'a.Rikhhe will prolong יָמִ֑יםya.Mimdays וְחֵ֥פֶץve./Che.fetzand/ [the] pleasure of יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahweh בְּיָד֥וֹbe./ya.D/oin/ hand/ his יִצְלָֽח׃yitz.Lachit will prosper

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 8:32 He 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?
Galatians 3:13 Christ 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.”
Zechariah 13:7 Awake, 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.
Ephesians 1:5 He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Isaiah 53:3 He 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.
Hebrews 10:6 In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
1 John 4:9 This 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.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore 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.
Romans 6:9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.