He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he (k) opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
(k) But willingly and patiently obeyed his father's appointment, (Matthew 26:63; Acts 8:32).
HE WAS OPPRESSED - (נגשׂ _niggas'_). Lowth renders this, ‘It was exacted.’ Hengstenberg, ‘He was abased.’ Jerome (the Vulgate), ‘He was offered because he was willing.’ The Septuagint ‘He, on account...
CHAPTER 53 The Sinbearer and His Victory 1. _The marred visage and His exaltation (Isaiah 52:13) _ 2. _His life and His rejection by the nation (Isaiah 53:1) _ 3. The work of the Sinbearer: smitten,...
ISAIAH 52:13- ISAIAH 53:12. THE VINDICATION OF THE SERVANT OF YAHWEH (the fourth of the Songs of the Servant of Yahweh). ISAIAH 52:13. Yahweh announces that His Servant Israel shall be raised to a po...
OPPRESSED: or, hard pressed. OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH. Idiom for silence and submission. Compare 1 Peter 2:22; 1 Peter 2:23. HE IS BROUGHT. Quoted in Acts 8:32;...
Isaiah 53:1-9. Having thus indicated the subject of his discourse, the prophet now proceeds to describe the career of the Servant, and the impression he had made on his contemporaries. This is preface...
Isaiah 52:13 to Isaiah 53:12. The Servant's Sacrifice and His Reward This is the last and greatest, as well as the most difficult, of the four delineations of the Servant of Jehovah, and in several r...
_He was oppressed and he was afflicted_ The first verb ("oppressed") may summarize the preceding account of the Servant's afflictions (Dillmann), but more probably it introduces a feature not previous...
The narrative of the Servant's sufferings is in these verses brought to its conclusion: after enduring violence and injustice at the hands of men, his life was cut short and he was laid in a dishonour...
DISCOURSE: 970 CHRIST’S BEHAVIOUR UNDER HIS SUFFERINGS Isaiah 53:7. _He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened, not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep bef...
HE WAS OPPRESSED, &C.— _It was exacted, and he engaged for,_ or, _and he answered it, and opened not his mouth,_ &c. Or, _The debt was demanded,_ &c. Chandler: who remarks, that thus the learned L'Emp...
b.SUFFERS TEXT: Isaiah 53:4-9 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgression...
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. HE WAS OPPRES...
53:7 oppressed, (f-3) Or 'illtreated.'...
1-3. The tenses are past (prophetic perfect), the future being viewed as already accomplished....
The v. expressively sets forth the meekness of the Messiah under persecution. See the literal fulfilment recorded in Matthew 26:63; Matthew 27:12; Matthew 27:14 and parallel passages....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 53 THE SERVANT WAS HIMSELF NOT NOTICEABLE V1 Nobody would believe what we have just he...
The experiences of the Servant were similar to the experiences of Jesus. The Servant was silent (see Matthew 26:63). Men took him by force (see Matthew 26:50). Nobody supported him in court (see Matth...
HE WAS AFFLICTED... — More accurately, _He let himself be afflicted,_ as implying the voluntary acceptance of the suffering. OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH. — The silence of absolute acquiescence, as in Psalms...
נִגַּ֨שׂ וְ ה֣וּא נַעֲנֶה֮ וְ לֹ֣א יִפְתַּח
THE REJECTED AND SUFFERING REDEEMER Isaiah 53:1-12 The common lot of man may be summed up in three words: suffering, sin, and death. Our Lord, the Divine Servant, presents a notable exception to the...
We begin our reading here because the last three verses of chapter 52 so evidently belong to chapter 53. In this section the prophet describes the completion and issue of the suffering of the Servant...
_Will. The pagans were very attentive that the victim should not make much resistance. (Macrobius iii. 5.)_...
7._He was punished. _Here the Prophet applauds the obedience of Christ in suffering death; for if his death had not been voluntary, he would not have been regarded as having satisfied for our disobedi...
Chapter 53. Israel's unbelief is declared. The structure of this most interesting chapter is as follows. As we have seen, in the Psalms and elsewhere, the full repentance of Israel comes after their d...
HE WAS OPPRESSED, AND HE WAS AFFLICTED,.... He was injuriously treated by the Jews; they used him very ill, and handled him very roughly; he was oppressed and afflicted, both in body and mind, with th...
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Ver. 7. _He was...
_He was oppressed_ By the intolerable weight of his sufferings, _and he was afflicted_ By the most pungent pain and sorrow. Or, as the Hebrew נגשׁ הוא נענה, is rendered by Bishop Lowth and others, _It...
He was oppressed, sorely ill-treated, AND HE WAS AFFLICTED, He bowed Himself down, offering a willing back to the burden placed upon it; YET HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH; HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLA...
V. 1. WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT? Who puts faith in that which he hears from us, the messengers of the Lord? AND TO WHOM IS THE ARM OF THE LORD REVEALED? The evangelist of the Old Testament, in an i...
4-9 In these verses is an account of the sufferings of Christ; also of the design of his sufferings. It was for our sins, and in our stead, that our Lord Jesus suffered. We have all sinned, and have...
HE WAS OPPRESSED, AND HE WAS AFFLICTED; he was sorely punished for our sins. But there is another translation, which seems to be more emphatical, and more agreeable to the Hebrew text; _It_ (to wit, o...
Isaiah 53:7 oppressed H5065 (H8738) afflicted H6031 (H8737) opened H6605 (H8799) mouth H6310 led H2986 ...
‘He was oppressed, yet he humbled himself, And did not open his mouth, As a lamb who is led to the slaughter, And as a sheep which before her shearers is dumb, Yes, he did not open his mouth. By...
Isaiah 53:7 St. Peter makes it almost a description of the Christian, that he loves Him whom he has not seen; speaking of Christ, he says, "Whom having not seen, ye love." Unless we have a true love o...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?_ It is sometimes the lot of God's most faithful servants to labour unsuccessfully. As old Thomas Fuller quaint...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?_ The prophet seems to speak in the name of all the prophets, lamenting the general unbelief concerning Jesus C...
This is a chapter which you have read hundreds of times, perhaps, I am sure it is one that needs no comment from me. I shall read it through with scarcely a sentence of comment. Isaiah 53:1. Who hath...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed!_ It is no new thing for gospel ministers to be disappointed. Even Isaiah; the most Evangelical of all the prop...
Blessed passage; I hope you all know it by heart; it should be like the alphabet to every child. See how it begins. Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD reve...
Isaiah 53:1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeli...
CONTENTS: The vicarious sacrifice of Christ, the servant of Jehovah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The whole race of mankind lies under the stain of original corruption, all gone astray from G...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report; and to whom is_ (the Messiah) _the_ mighty _arm of the Lord revealed?_ This complaint of the servants is but the plaintive echo of their Master's voice. He...
_Who hath believed our report?_ THE MESSIAH REFERRED TO IN Isaiah 53:1 By some it has been supposed, in ancient times and in modern, that the prophet was referring to the sufferings of the nation of...
_He is despised and rejected of men_ THE MEAN APPEARANCE OF THE REDEEMER FORETOLD I. THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD IN DETERMINING TO SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD IN A STATE OF POVERTY AND AFFLICTION...
_He was oppressed_ CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS AND HIS DEPORTMENT UNDER THEM I. THE NATURE OF THE SUFFERINGS. “He was oppressed, and He was afflicted.” II. THE CARRIAGE OF CHRIST UNDER THEM. “He opened not...
OUR SAVIOUR’S SUFFERINGS AND SUBMISSION Isaiah 53:7. _He was oppressed, &c._ The whole field of Scripture is of infinite value, yet the Christian peculiarly prizes those parts of it wherein Christ, t...
THE GREAT MESSIANIC PROPHECY Isaiah 53:2. _For He shall grow up before Him, &c._ Among the prophecies of Isaiah, that which is contained in the chapter before us stands eminent and illustrious. Recei...
EXPOSITION THE PASSIONAL, OR THE GREAT PROPHECY OF THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST, AND OF HIS LATER EXALTATION. Polycarp the Lysian calls this chapter "the golden passional of the Old Testament evangelist....
By Chuck Smith When men made chapter and verse divisions, they did make mistakes. The Word of God is divinely inspired; it's inerrant. But men, for the sake of helping us to find scriptures and to mem...
1 Peter 2:23; Acts 8:32; Acts 8:33; John 19:9; Luke 23:9;...
THE SUBSTITUTION OF THE SAVIOUR _A Study of Isaiah 53:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is called the Great Calvary Chapter. The chapter, however, goes back of Calvary describi...
He opened not — He neither murmured against God, nor reviled men....