Isaiah 53 · Verse 5

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5, King James Version

Isaiah 53:5 in other translations

BSBBut 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.
WEBBut 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.
ASVBut he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
YLTAnd he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.
DARBYBut he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
BBEBut it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
WebsterBut he was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

What does Isaiah 53:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. wounded--a bodily wound; not mere mental sorrow; literally, "pierced"; minutely appropriate to Messiah, whose hands, feet, and side were pierced (Psa 22:16). The Margin, wrongly, from a Hebrew root, translates, "tormented." for ... for--(Ro 4:25; 2Co 5:21; He 9:28; 1Pe 2:24; 3:18)--the cause for which He suffered not His own, but our sins. bruised--crushing inward and outward suffering (see on Is 53:10). chastisement--literally, the correction inflicted by a parent on children for their good (He 12:5-8, 10, 11). Not punishment strictly; for this can have place only where there is guilt, which He had not; but He took on Himself the chastisement whereby the peace (reconciliation with our Father; Ro 5:1; Ep 2:14, 15, 17) of the children of God was to be effected (He 2:14). upon him--as a burden; parallel to "hath borne" and "carried." stripes--minutely prophetical of His being scourged (Mt 27:26; 1Pe 2:24). healed--spiritually (Psa 41:4; Jr 8:22).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 The chastisement of our peace "The chastisement by which our peace is effected" - Twenty-one MSS. and six editions have the word fully and regularly expressed, שלמינו shelomeynu; pacificationum nostrarum, "our pacification;" that by which we are brought into a state of peace and favor with God. Ar. Montan.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 53:4-9

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 come short of the glory of God. Sinners have their beloved sin, their own evil way, of which they are fond. Our sins deserve all griefs and sorrows, even the most severe. We are saved from the ruin, to which by sin we become…

Read the full comment on Isaiah 53:4-9 →

Isaiah 53:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהוּא֙ve.Hu'and heH1931
מְחֹלָ֣לme.cho.Lal[was] piercedH2490
מִפְּשָׁעֵ֔נוּmi.pe.sha.'E.nufrom transgressions ourH6588
מְדֻכָּ֖אme.du.Ka'[was] crushedH1792
מֵעֲוֹנֹתֵ֑ינוּme.'a.vo.no.Tei.nufrom iniquities ourH5771
מוּסַ֤רmu.Sar[the] chastening ofH4148
שְׁלוֹמֵ֙נוּ֙she.lo.Me.nupeace ourH7965
עָלָ֔יו'a.Lav[was] on himH5921
וּבַחֲבֻרָת֖וֹu.va.cha.vu.ra.Toand by wound[s] hisH2250
נִרְפָּא\־nir.pa'-it was healedH7495
לָֽנוּ\׃La.nuto us

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 53:5

  • 1 Peter 2:24-25

    Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

  • 1 Peter 3:18

    For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

  • Matthew 20:28

    Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:21

    For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  • Romans 5:6-10

    For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. …

  • Isaiah 53:10-12

    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. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

  • Hebrews 10:14

    For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

  • Romans 4:25

    Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

  • Hebrews 9:12-15

    Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

  • Hebrews 10:10

    By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:3

    For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

  • Isaiah 53:6-8

    All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 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 taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But he was.
6-8,11,12; Da 9:24; Zec 13:7; Mt 20:28; Ro 3:24-26; 4:25
Ro 5:6-10,15-21; 1Co 15:3; 2Co 5:21; Eph 5:2; Heb 9:12-15
Heb 10:10,14; 1Pe 3:18
wounded. or, tormented. bruised.
10; Ge 3:15
the chastisement.
1Pe 2:24
stripes. Heb. bruise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Isaiah 53:4

    Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

  • Isaiah 53:5

    But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

  • Isaiah 53:6

    All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Read all of Isaiah 53

Isaiah 53:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mas él herido fué por nuestras rebeliones, molido por nuestros pecados: el castigo de nuestra paz sobre él; y por su llaga fuimos nosotros curados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
mais il a été blessé pour nos transgressions, il a été meurtri pour nos iniquités; le châtiment de notre paix a été sur lui, et par ses meurtrissures nous sommes guéris.
German
Elberfelder 1871
doch um unserer Übertretungen willen war er verwundet, um unserer Missetaten willen zerschlagen. Die Strafe zu unserem Frieden lag auf ihm, und durch seine Striemen ist uns Heilung geworden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ipse autem vulneratus est propter iniquitates nostras; attritus est propter scelera nostra: disciplina pacis nostræ super eum, et livore ejus sanati sumus.