Isaiah 53:4-7

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:6

‘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 group that have failed, it is all the group including each individual. And they are described in total as ‘we’, thus including Isaiah, Israel and all men in contra-position to the One. The picture is of sheep-headedness, wandering aimlessly, heedless of instruction, going their own way without thought... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:7-8

‘He was oppressed, yet he humbled himself, And did not open his mouth, As a lamb who is led to the slaughter, And as a sheep which before her shearers is dumb, Yes, he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away, And as for his generation, Who among them considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken.’ A fuller explanation is now given of how the Servant would suffer. Not only would He face the woes of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:1-12

Isaiah 52:13– Isaiah 53:12 . The Vindication of the Servant of Yahweh (the fourth of the Songs of the Servant of Yahweh). Isaiah 52:13-Ezra : . Yahweh announces that His Servant Israel shall be raised to a position so glorious that, even as many were appalled at his pitiable plight, so nations shall do him homage and kings be reverently silent in his presence, beholding so wonderful, so unheard-of a transformation. Isaiah 52:13 . shall deal wisely: translate “ prosper” ( mg.) , but probably... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:4

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: and whereas it may seem all unreasonable and incredible thing, that so excellent and glorious, and so innocent and just, a person should meet with this usage, it must be known that his griefs and miseries were not laid upon him for his own sake, but wholly and solely for the sake of sinful men, in whose stead he stood, and for whose sins he suffered, as it here follows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted; yet... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:5

But; but this was a most false and unrighteous sentence. He was wounded; which word comprehends all his pains and punishments, and his death among and above the rest. For our transgressions; not by them, which is expressed by another particle, not by the wickedness of the Jews; but for or because of them, as this particle commonly signifies, for the guilt of their sins, which he had voluntarily taken upon himself, and for the expiation of their sins, which was hereby purchased and procured of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:6

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 the way of his precepts, in which he put our first parents, and in which he commanded us to walk. To his own way; in general, to the way and course of sin, which may well be called a man’s own way, as sins are called men’s own lusts, James 1:14; 2 Peter 3:3, and elsewhere, because sin is natural to us,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted; he was sorely punished for our sins. But there is another translation, which seems to be more emphatical, and more agreeable to the Hebrew text; It (to wit, our iniquity last mentioned, or the punishment of all our sins) was exacted or required, (as this word most properly and frequently signifies, of which see my Latin Synopsis. God’s justice expected and required satisfaction from us for our sins; which, alas! we could not make to him,) and he was... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 53:2-12

THE GREAT MESSIANIC PROPHECYIsaiah 53:2-12. For He shall grow up before Him, &c.Among the prophecies of Isaiah, that which is contained in the chapter before us stands eminent and illustrious. Received and interpreted according to the sense attached to it by Christians, it involves in it a striking proof of the truth and divinity of our holy religion. It does this simply as a prophecy, irrespective of its dogmatic or theological character. It is a prediction of what was to come to pass. It... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 53:3-5

THE DESPISED AND REJECTED SAVIOURIsaiah 53:3. He is despised and rejected of men, &c.This is a summary of the history of our Lord, as it is recorded by the four Evangelists. His very first hours on earth may be cited in proof of its correctness. No place could be found for Him even in an inn. His life was a life of poverty. Scorn and insult followed Him everywhere. His life closed amid circumstances of unspeakable ignominy. In these facts we have,I. A reason for not being very strongly... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 53:6

WANDERING SHEEPIsaiah 53:6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way.Comparisons in Scripture are frequently to be understood with great limitation: perhaps, out of many circumstances, one only is justly applicable to the case. Thus, when our Lord says, “Behold, I come as a thief” (Revelation 16:15)—common sense will fix the resemblance to a single point, that He will come suddenly and unexpectedly.So, when wandering sinners are compared to wandering sheep, we... read more

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