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Isaiah 53:10

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Isaiah 53:10

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.

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But 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.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He 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.

He 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?

They 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.

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.

After 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.

Therefore 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.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

On the messianic-fulfillment reading, Isaiah 53:10 says that after the Servant's life is made an offering he will see offspring and prolong his days, which — following the report that he was cut off from the land of the living (53:8) and buried (53:9) — implies life beyond death. Taken individually, this death-then-life sequence is the strongest candidate for a resurrection pattern in the fourth Servant Song, and it is applied to the claim that the risen Christ will never die again (Romans 6:9). Defenders regard it as more textually grounded than psalm-based resurrection readings because the death, burial, and subsequent life all stand in the immediate context.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

On the critical reading, 'seeing offspring' and 'prolonging days' are ordinary Hebrew idioms for posterity and long life and do not by themselves narrate a dead individual rising. The dominant ancient Jewish reading is corporate — the Servant as Israel or a remnant — so offspring and lengthened days describe national restoration after exile. Even an individual reading need not mean resurrection, since a vindicated sufferer rewarded with descendants and long life is a recognizable motif (cf. Job 42:10-17), and neither the Masoretic Text nor the Septuagint supplies clear resurrection language here. On this view Romans 6:9 reflects a post-Easter expectation read back into a text that does not demand it; the sequence is the strongest such candidate but is not itself a resurrection prediction.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Romans 6:9 Not cited by the New Testament

    Romans 6:9 asserts that the risen Christ dies no more but contains no quotation or verbal allusion to Isaiah 53:10; the link is thematic (death followed by enduring life).