Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 53:10

"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." — Isaiah 53:10 (ASV)

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,

The grain of wheat, sown in the ground, does not abide alone, but brings forth much fruit. Our blessed Saviour presented both soul and body as an offering for sin, but he knew what he was doing, for he shall see his seed,.

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.

Here the strain changes altogether. From the depths of woe, we begin to rise with hopes of a glad result of all the suffering and sorrow and shame. Glory be to the name of Christ. He has a mighty right hand, into which God has placed that work which is according to his own good pleasure – even the work of saving guilty men. And that work, in his prolonged days, until the end of time, shall prosper in the hand of the Christ of God.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him;

We might say the same of that tried child of God whose utterances we read just now: It pleased the Lord to bruise him.

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.

Wicked men killed our Lord, and their crime was the blackest in the world's history; but, unconsciously, they were carrying out the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. It pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief. Christ died for others, but he lives again; and through him a godly seed shall live for ever and ever: 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 is made to prosper because he died.

He shall prolong his days,

Up from the grave did He arise in newness of life, and back to heaven did He return to life immortal: He shall prolong his days,

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief:

The Lord was behind it all. Not Pilate, nor Herod, nor Judas, nor Jew, nor Roman, but Jehovah bruised him.

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.

Do not be afraid, then, about the kingdom of Christ. Its interests are safe enough, for they are in his hands, and God has given the promise that his pleasure shall prosper there.

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.

Death, in our Lord's case, was the way to the extension of life.

He dies that he may see his seed, as he himself said to his disciples, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. For Christ, the path to prosperity was by way of adversity. The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand because it pleased the Father to bruise him.

And, often, it shall be with the servant as it was with the Master; it shall please the Lord to bruise you, and put you to grief, that in later days the pleasure of the Lord may prosper in your hand.

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.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. If ever there was a man whom God should have protected from every sorrow and guarded from every stroke of injustice, it was Jesus. And unless He suffered for sins not His own, unless it was as a substitute for man, it was the most unjust of all injustices heard of that Christ should die at all.