Isaiah 52:13 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 52:13

Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.

BSB

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ASV

Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

KJV

Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 13.) Behold, my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted and extolled, and shall be very high. LXX: Behold, my servant shall understand, and he shall be exalted, and shall be very glorious. So that there may be no ambiguity for readers, it is clear who will say: I, who spoke, am here; and the holy arm of the Lord, which has been revealed to all nations, God the Almighty Father clearly teaches: Behold my servant or my son whom I have sent, about whom we have spoken of his difference before.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

My servant - That it is Christ who is here spoken of, is so evident, that the Chaldee paraphrast, and other ancient, and some later Hebrew doctors, understand it directly of him, and that divers Jews have been convinced and converted to the Christian faith, by the evidence of this prophecy.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Notes on Isa 52:13-15 and Isa 53:1-12 The most important portion of Isaiah, and of the Old Testament, commences here, and here should have been the beginning of a new chapter. It is the description of the suffering Messiah, and is continued to the close of the next chapter. As the closing verses of this chapter are connected with the following chapter, and as it is of great importance to have just views of the design of this portion of Isaiah, it is proper in this place to give an analysis of this part of the prophecy.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּ֥ה	hi.Neh	there!	H2009 →
יַשְׂכִּ֖יל	yas.Kil	he will prosper	H7919 →
עַבְדִּ֑י	'av.Di	servant my	H5650 →
יָר֧וּם	ya.Rum	he will be high	H7311 →
וְנִשָּׂ֛א	ve.ni.Sa'	and he will be lifted up	H5375 →
וְגָבַ֖הּ	ve.ga.Vah	and he will be exalted	H1361 →
מְאֹֽד׃	me.'Od	exceedingly	H3966 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 28:18
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
leads to
- John 3:35
  The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
- 1 Peter 3:22
  who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
- Matthew 11:27
  All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses…
- Ephesians 1:20–22
  which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
- Hebrews 2:8
  and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.
Through
Isaiah 42:1
“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
leads to
- Matthew 12:18–21
  “Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
- Luke 3:22
  and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
Through
John 3:31
The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is…
leads to
- John 8:23
  Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah