Isaiah 52:13–53:12 — Verse-by-Verse

The fourth Servant Song, walked through with Doctrine A commentary per verse.

Full passage in KJV / WEB / ASV with a Hebrew text panel for key terms (nasa — to bear; makob — sorrow; chalah — sickness/affliction). Every verse carries a featured commentary excerpt ≤50 words plus Show other voices expansion. Primary voice: Delitzsch's Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah (PD 1873; Hebrew-Christian scholar, unusually rigorous). Secondary: Calvin, Henry, Gill, JFB, Clarke, Spurgeon (The Wounds of Jesus, 1860).

Commentary

Featured voice

John Calvin

Commentaries

Reformed

1. Who will believe our report? This division, or rather dismemberment, of the chapter, ought to be disregarded; for it ought to have begun with the thirteenth verse of the former chapter, and these words ought to be connected with what goes before. Here the Prophet pauses, as it were,…

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Key passage

Isaiah 53:5 →

"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

Isa 52:13Exalted and extolled — the bracketing exaltation.
Isa 53:5Wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities.
Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; the LORD laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:10His soul an offering for sin; he shall see his seed.
Heb 9:14Christ offered himself without spot to God.
1 Pet 2:24By whose stripes ye were healed.

Typological connection

Isaiah 52:13–53:12 is the OT's most detailed account of the cross — written 700 years before, attested in DSS 1QIsa-a 150 years before, quoted at minimum eight times across multiple NT authors over four decades.

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