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Isaiah 53

Isaiah 53 has 261 cross-references from its 12 verses to other passages (218 with at least 4 reader votes), and 473 verses elsewhere point back to it. Its strongest links: Isaiah 53:5 → 1 Peter 2:24–25 (250 votes), Isaiah 53:5 → 1 Peter 3:18 (131 votes) and Isaiah 53:5 → Matthew 20:28 (113 votes). It connects with 49 other books.

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Promises kept: By His stripes (~710–770 years)

Isaiah 53 (BSB)

The Suffering Servant

1Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no stately form or majesty to attract us,
no beauty that we should desire Him.
3He 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.

4Surely He took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows;
yet we considered Him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
5But He was pierced for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healed.
6We all like sheep have gone astray,
each one has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid upon Him
the iniquity of us all.

7He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet He did not open His mouth.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so He did not open His mouth.
8By oppression and judgment He was taken away,
and who can recount His descendants?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

A Grave Assigned

9He was assigned a 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.

10Yet 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.
11After the anguish of His soul,
He will see the light of life
and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many,
and He will bear their iniquities.
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.

Most connected verses in Isaiah 53

Isaiah 53:10 177 links, 102 strong
Isaiah 53:12 136 links, 91 strong
Isaiah 53:3 134 links, 84 strong
Isaiah 53:11 157 links, 80 strong
Isaiah 53:6 112 links, 73 strong

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