Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (i) iniquity of us all.
(i) Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (i) iniquity of us all.
(i) Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.
Verse Isaiah 53:6. _THE INIQUITY OF US ALL._] For עון _avon_, "iniquity," the ancient interpreters read עונות _avonoth_, "iniquities," plural; and so the _Vulgate_ in MS. Blanchini. And the Lord hath...
ALL WE, LIKE SHEEP, HAVE GONE ASTRAY - This is the penitent confession of those for whom he suffered. It is an acknowledgment that they were going astray from God; and the reason why the Redeemer suff...
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ALL... ALL. Note the Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis_ (App-6), by which the statement is emphasized as containing the essence of the whole chapter. More noticeable in Hebrew. _killdnu... killanu._ Quo...
Isaiah 53:1-9. Having thus indicated the subject of his discourse, the prophet now proceeds to describe the career of the Servant, and the impression he had made on his contemporaries. This is preface...
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While Isaiah 53:2 describe the natural instinctive impressions produced by the Servant's appearance, Isaiah 53:4 reveal incidentally the moral judgement which the people were led to form regarding him...
Looking back on their former irreligious condition the people see that their rejection of the Servant was the natural outcome of the heedless and inconsiderate selfishness in which they were living. F...
DISCOURSE: 969 THE MEANS OF MAN’S RESTORATION TO GOD Isaiah 53:6. _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._...
ALL WE LIKE SHEEP, &C.— "In this sense he is the Saviour: for otherwise none of us, without him, could be saved. We are all sinners, and are gone out of the way of God's laws; and as such, are unable,...
b.SUFFERS TEXT: Isaiah 53:4-9 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 transgression...
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. The extent of our malady, and our urgent need of cure, are next set...
1-3. The tenses are past (prophetic perfect), the future being viewed as already accomplished....
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The reason for the Servant to suffer was because of *sins. But the *sins were not his own. The *sins were ours. The Servant did not deserve the punishment. We ought to have suffered that punishment. B...
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כֻּלָּ֨נוּ֙ כַּ † צֹּ֣אן תָּעִ֔ינוּ אִ֥ישׁ לְ...
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We begin our reading here because the last three verses of chapter 52 so evidently belong to chapter 53. In this section the prophet describes the completion and issue of the suffering of the Servant...
_Astray. We belong to his fold, chap. xl. 11., John x. 11., and Luke xv. 4.--- Laid. Septuagint, "abandoned him to our sins," as to so many executioners; (Calmet) "and he, because he had been abused,...
6._We all, like sheep, have gone astray. _In order to impress more deeply on our hearts the benefit of the death of Christ, he shows how necessary is that healing which he formerly mentioned. If we do...
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ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY,.... Here the prophet represents all the elect of God, whether Jews or Gentiles; whom he compares to "sheep", not for their good qualities, but for their foolishness...
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. Ver. 6. _All we, like sheep, have gone astray._] Gone of our own acc...
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V. 1. WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT? Who puts faith in that which he hears from us, the messengers of the Lord? AND TO WHOM IS THE ARM OF THE LORD REVEALED? The evangelist of the Old Testament, in an i...
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and, in the mean time, while we were yet sinners and godless, THE LORD HATH LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL. While manki...
LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL: _ Heb._ he hath made the iniquity of us all to meet on him...
4-9 In these verses is an account of the sufferings of Christ; also of the design of his sufferings. It was for our sins, and in our stead, that our Lord Jesus suffered. We have all sinned, and have...
ALL WE, all mankind, the Jews no less than the Gentiles, LIKE SHEEP, which are simple and foolish creatures, and exceeding apt to straggle and lose themselves, _have gone astray_ from God, and from th...
Isaiah 53:6 sheep H6629 astray H8582 (H8804) turned H6437 (H8804) one H376 way H1870 LORD H3068 laid...
‘All we like sheep have gone astray, We have turned every one to our own way, And Yahweh has laid on him, The iniquity of us all.' Here we have stress laid on each individual. It is not just the gr...
This is one of the Chapter s that lie at the very heart of the Scriptures. It is the very Holy of holies of Divine Writ. Let us, therefore, put off our shoes from our feet, for the place whereon we st...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?_ It is sometimes the lot of God's most faithful servants to labour unsuccessfully. As old Thomas Fuller quaint...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?_ The prophet seems to speak in the name of all the prophets, lamenting the general unbelief concerning Jesus C...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed!_ It is no new thing for gospel ministers to be disappointed. Even Isaiah; the most Evangelical of all the prop...
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We — All mankind. Astray — From God. Have turned — In general, to the way of sin, which may well be called a man's own way, because sin is natural to us, inherent in us, born with us; and in particula...