--- title: "Isaiah 53 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Isaiah 53 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a d" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/53" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/53)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/53)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/53) Audio 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?* 2 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 comeliness; and when we shall see him, *there is* no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were *our* faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.* 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 transgressions, *he was* bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace *was* upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.** 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.* 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 before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 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.** 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither *was any* deceit in his mouth.* 10 ¶ 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.* 11 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. 12 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. [Isaiah 52](/study/isaiah/52) [Isaiah 54](/study/isaiah/54) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Who hath believed our report?** the prophet having in the three last verses of the former chapter made a general report concerning the great and wonderful humiliation and exaltation of Christ, of which he intended more largely to discourse in this chapter, before he descended to particulars he thought fit to use this preface. **Who,**not only of the Gentiles, but even of the Jews, *will believe* the truth-of what I have said and must say? Few or none. The generality of them will never receive nor believe in such a Messias as this. Thus this place is expounded by Christ himself, [John 12:38](/kjv/john/12/38), and by Paul, [Romans 10:16](/kjv/romans/10/16). And this premonition was highly necessary, both to caution the Jews that they should not stumble at this stone, and to instruct the Gentiles that they should not be surprised, nor scandalized, nor seduced with their example. **The arm of the Lord;**either, 1. The word of God, called the report in the former clause; the doctrine of the gospel, which is expressly called *the power of God*, [1 Corinthians 1:18](/kjv/1-corinthians/1/18), because of that admirable virtue and success which accompanied the preaching of it. Or, 2. The Messiah, who also is called the arm or *power of God*, [1 Corinthians 1:24](/kjv/1-corinthians/1/24); and that most fitly, because the almighty power of God was both seated in him, and declared and exercised by him in his powerful words and mighty deeds, as Simon for some great works wrought by him was called by the Samaritans *the power of God*, [Acts 8:10](/kjv/acts/8/10). **Revealed;**not outwardly, for so Christ was revealed and preached to vast numbers, both of Jews and Gentiles, as is evident from this context, arid from divers other places of Scripture; but inwardly and with power to their minds and hearts, of which kind of revelation see [Ephesians 1:17-19](/kjv/ephesians/1/17-19), and compare it with [2 Corinthians 4:4](/kjv/2-corinthians/4/4). Thus even Moses, though sufficiently revealed to the eyes and ears of the Jews, yet is said to be unrevealed or hid from their minds and hearts, [2 Corinthians 3:14](/kjv/2-corinthians/3/14),[2 Corinthians 3:15](/kjv/2-corinthians/3/15). 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