Isaiah 53:7

"All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."

Key Reflection

This verse metaphorically describes humanity's estrangement from God, comparing us to wandering sheep without a shepherd. It highlights how individually we stray from the path of righteousness and that our collective sinfulness is ultimately laid upon one individual—Jesus—as part of the plan for redemption.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He was oppressed -(נגשׂniggas'). Lowth renders this, ‘It was exacted.’ Hengstenberg, ‘He was abased.’ Jerome (the Vulgate), ‘He was offered because he was willing.’ The Septuagint ‘He, on account of his affliction, opened not his mouth,’ implying that his silence arose from the extremity of his sorrows. The Chaldee renders it, ‘He prayed, and he was heard, and before he opened his mouth he was accepted.’ The Syriac, ‘He came and humbled himself, neither did he open his mouth.’ Kimchi supposes that it means, ‘it was exacted;’ and that it refers to the fact that taxes were demanded of the exiles, when they were in a foreign land.

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