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In this chapter we have the third of the "Servant Songs". Here we have pictured the "Suffering Servant". He whom God sends must submit to the persecutions of the opposition in order to achieve his mission. Isaiah suffered for the sake of the unbelieving Jews who doubted God's intention to deliver them from the Babylonians. Christ suffered for the sake of the world from unbelieving Jews who doubted that He was the promised Messiah and rejected him even to His crucifixion and resurrection.
Here the Prophet establishes the credentials of the servant of God. They must be willing to accept the persecution associated with the calling and place their faith in spite of this persecution in the promised redemption of God. This seems to be aimed at many servants in many ages. It applies to complaining Jews who were persecuted in Babylon. It seems to apply to Isaiah who died many years before this was written, never the less, he complained about the prophesy of it. It also applies to unbelieving Jews at the time of Christ who sought to rest on their past promises of redemption rather than on the actual fulfillment of those promises in Christ Jesus.
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