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Isaiah 53:5

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Isaiah 53:5

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.

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Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading observes that the 'healing' clause of Isaiah 53:5 is read as its own distinct prophecy alongside the verse's 'penalty' and 'peace' clauses. On this reading the three clauses are poetically parallel restatements of a single claim, that the Servant's suffering benefits others, not three independent predictions. Critics grant that 1 Peter 2:24 does quote this clause directly, but note that a direct citation of one line does not make the three-way split substantive. They also flag that the 2 Corinthians and Colossians links sometimes cited here are apologetic associations, not the confirmed fulfillment locus for this clause (which is 1 Peter 2:24).

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

This reading takes the healing clause of Isaiah 53:5 and connects it to 1 Peter 2:24, which reproduces the clause almost verbatim. Because 1 Peter cites the line directly, the fulfillment reading regards it as an explicit apostolic identification of the Servant's healing work with Christ's suffering. Advocates add that three different apostolic authors applying three clauses of the one verse form a multiple-attestation witness rather than coordinated proof-texting.

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.

  • 1Peter 2:24 Direct quotation

    1 Peter 2:24 reproduces the 'by his wounds you have been healed' clause of Isa 53:5 nearly verbatim, the clearest direct NT quotation of this verse.