ESTUDIO DEL VERSÍCULO
Isaiah 53:5-6 — Pierced for Our Transgressions
Isaiah 53:5-6 presents substitutionary suffering: the Servant is wounded and crushed so that sinners receive peace, healing, and the transfer of their iniquity.
Escritura
- 5.Mas él herido fue por nuestras rebeliones, molido por nuestros pecados; el castigo de nuestra paz fue sobre él, y por su llaga fuimos nosotros curados.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.Todos nosotros nos descarriamos como ovejas, cada cual se apartó por su camino; mas Jehová cargó en él el pecado de todos nosotros.All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Qué significa este pasaje
Verse 5 stacks four substitutionary phrases in tight parallelism: wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, chastisement that brings our peace, and stripes by which we are healed. The Hebrew preposition מִן (min) on the first two pairs expresses cause or on behalf of — the suffering is not coincidental to sin but answers to it. The shift from punishment (מוּסַר) to peace (שָׁלוֹם) shows an exchange: what the Servant receives, the people gain. Healing (רָפָא, nirpāʾ) here is not merely physical but restorative of the whole person, echoing the Servant having 'borne our griefs' in v. 4.
Verse 6 widens the lens from the Servant to every individual: 'all we like sheep have gone astray,' 'each turned to his own way.' The verb תָּעָה (tāʿā, to stray) frames sin as lostness rather than mere rule-breaking. The closing line attributes the transfer of guilt directly to יהוה (Jehovah): he 'caused the iniquity of us all to strike against him.' The subject of the laying is God, not the Servant nor the people — making divine initiative the ground of the exchange.
Together the two verses articulate a substitutionary logic: human straying (v. 6) meets divine action placing sin on the Servant (v. 6), whose suffering (v. 5) purchases peace and healing. The repeated 'our' (v. 5) and 'us all' (v. 6) leave no category of hearer outside the claim; the pronoun shifts the reader from observer to beneficiary.
Contexto
Isaiah 53 sits in the fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 52:13–53:12). Verses 4–6 form the theological center: v. 4 names the Servant's bearing of sickness and sorrow (commonly read as physical and spiritual); v. 5 explains the mechanism — substitution; v. 6 broadens it to a corporate confession. Verses 7–9 then move to the Servant's silent acquiescence, unjust death, and burial, before v. 10–12 declares the outcome of his sacrifice.
The Suffering Servant figure is set against a Servant who fails in earlier chapters (42:18–25), and against Israel as a nation servant who has not fulfilled her calling (cf. 49:3). Whether the Servant is a collective or individual is debated among scholars; the text itself presents him with corporate identity yet singular substitutionary acts.
Palabras clave del original
- H6588 פֶּשַׁע (peshaʿ) denotes a revolt or rebellion — willful transgression rather than an unwitting slip. The Servant's wounding answers to deliberate human rebellion.
- H5771 עָוֺן (ʿāwōn) names moral perversity or guilt, often with the sense of twisted or bent. Its appearance on both sides of v. 5–6 frames the exchange: the iniquities of the people land on the Servant.
- H6293 הִפְגִּיעַ (hip̄giyʿaʿ, from פָּגַע) means 'to let strike against' or 'to cause to encounter.' In v. 6 the verb shows God as the active agent who transfers the people's iniquity onto the Servant.
Versículos relacionados
- 1 Peter 2:24 Echoes v. 5's substitutionary logic in NT terms: Christ 'bore our sins in his body' and by his stripes we are healed.
- 1 Peter 2:25 Mirrors v. 6's sheep-straying language and turns it to restoration: those who had gone astray have returned to the Shepherd.
- Romans 5:10 Pairs with v. 6's corporate 'we all': reconciliation through the Son's death while still enemies, secured by his life.
Preguntas frecuentes
What does 'wounded for our transgressions' mean?
The Hebrew min expresses cause or on behalf of: the Servant's piercing is grounded in and answers to human transgression. The suffering is substitutionary, not incidental.
Who laid the iniquity on the Servant?
Verse 6 names Jehovah as the subject: God himself caused the people's iniquity to strike against the Servant. The transfer is a divine act.
Is the 'healing' physical or spiritual?
The Hebrew rāphāʾ covers mending of the whole person. In context with v. 4's 'griefs and sorrows,' the healing is restorative of the full person — physical, relational, and spiritual — that sin had damaged.