11 translations · Hebrew

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.

World English Bible

Isaiah 53:10 in 11 translations

WEB World English Bible
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.
KJV King James Version
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.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
ASV American Standard Version
Yet it pleased Jehovah 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 Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
LSV Literal Standard Version
And YHWH has delighted to crush Him, || He has made Him sick; If His soul makes an offering for guilt, || He sees [His] seed—He prolongs [His] days, || And the pleasure of YHWH prospers in His hand.
FBV Free Bible Version
However, it was the Lord's will for him to be crushed and to suffer, for when he gives his life as a guilt offering he will see his descendants, he will have a long life, and what the Lord wants will be achieved through him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed — he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.
DBY Darby Translation
Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected [him] to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
WBT Webster’s Bible
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.
WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
Yet it pleased the LORD 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 the LORD’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a long-lived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.

The Hebrew words

Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.

Word Transliteration English (BSB) Strong’s
וַיהוָ֞ה Yah·weh Yet it was the LORD’s H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD
חָפֵ֤ץ ḥā·p̄êṣ will H2654 חָפֵץ to delight in
דַּכְּאוֹ֙ dak·kə·’ōw to crush Him H1792 דָּכָא to crush
הֶֽחֱלִ֔י he·ḥĕ·lî and to cause Him to suffer H2470 חָלָה be weak: weak
אִם־ ’im- and when H518 אִם if
תָּשִׂ֤ים tā·śîm is made H7760 שׂוּם to set: make
אָשָׁם֙ ’ā·šām a guilt offering H817 אָשָׁם guilt (offering)
נַפְשׁ֔וֹ nap̄·šōw His soul H5315 נֶ֫פֶשׁ soul
יִרְאֶ֥ה yir·’eh He will see H7200 רָאָה to see: see
זֶ֖רַע ze·ra‘ [His] offspring H2233 זֶ֫רַע seed
יַאֲרִ֣יךְ ya·’ă·rîḵ He will prolong H748 אָרַךְ to prolong
יָמִ֑ים yā·mîm His days H3117 יוֹם day
וְחֵ֥פֶץ wə·ḥê·p̄eṣ and the good pleasure H2656 חֵ֫פֶץ pleasure
יְהוָ֖ה Yah·weh of the LORD H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD
בְּיָד֥וֹ bə·yā·ḏōw in His hand H3027 יָד hand
יִצְלָֽח׃ yiṣ·lāḥ will prosper H6743 צָלַח to rush
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21

    For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Romans 8:32

    He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

  • Galatians 3:13

    Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

  • Zechariah 13:7

    “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

  • Ephesians 1:5

    having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

  • Isaiah 53:3–6

    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. …

  • Hebrews 10:6–12

    You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’” Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law), …

  • 1 John 4:9–10

    By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  • Isaiah 53:12

    Therefore will I give him a portion with the great, and 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 sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

  • Romans 6:9

    knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.

In context

8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and 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?

9 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.

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.

11 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.

12 Therefore will I give him a portion with the great, and 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 sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Read all of Isaiah 53 in the World English Bible.

Edition and source notes

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Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.

The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.

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