Isaiah 53:9

Isaiah 53:9. And he made his grave, &c.— And he committed his burial to the wicked, and to the rich his death, &c. Or, And his burial was appointed with the wicked; but he was with the rich in his death, &c. Or, And he [the people] made his grave with the wicked, but it shall be with the rich after his death; because, &c. Chandler. "His sepulchre shall be a proof of his innocence, as well as of his death. The people, to carry their contempt of him even to the grave, designed to bury him with the common malefactors, Isaiah 53:12.; but God disposed it otherwise: so that he who was too poor to provide a sepulchre for himself, was honourably interred at the expence of the rich; moved thereto from an opinion of the sufferer, and that he had done no wrong in deed or word." Dr. Kennicott reads, And he was taken up, [that is, hanged on the cross] with wicked men in his death, and with a rich man was his sepulchre; observing, that since the preceding parts of the prophesy speak so indisputably of the sufferings and death of the Messiah, these words seem evidently to be meant as descriptive of the Messiah's being put to death in company with wicked men, and making his grave or sepulchre not with rich men, but with one rich man. See his Dissert. vol. 2: p. 372, &c.