Isaiah 53:8

Isaiah 53:8

6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord¹ has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet ^aHe opened not His mouth;
^bHe was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.

8 He was ^ataken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For ^bHe was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

9 ^aAnd¹ they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any ^bdeceit in His mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to¹ bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul ^aan offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

11 ¹He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge ^aMy righteous ^bServant shall ^cjustify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.

12 ^aTherefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
^bAnd He shall divide the¹ spoil with the strong,
Because He ^cpoured out His soul unto death,
And He was ^dnumbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And ^emade intercession for the transgressors.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Rather, "He was taken away (that is, cut off) by oppression and by a judicial sentence"; a hendiadys for, "by an oppressive judicial sentence" [LOWTH and HENGSTENBERG]. GESENIUS not so well, "He was delivered from oppression and punishment" only by death. English Version also translates, "from . . . from," not "by . . . by." But "prison" is not true of Jesus, who was not incarcerated; restraint and bonds (John 18:24) more accord with the Hebrew. Acts 8:33; translate as the Septuagint: "In His humiliation His judgment (legal trial) was taken away"; the virtual sense of the Hebrew as rendered by LOWTH and sanctioned by the inspired writer of Acts; He was treated as one so mean that a fair trial was denied Him (Matthew 26:59; Mark 14:55-59). HORSLEY translates, "After condemnation and judgment He was accepted."

who . . . declare . . . generation—who can set forth (the wickedness of) His generation? that is, of His contemporaries [ALFORD on Acts 8:33], which suits best the parallelism, "the wickedness of His generation" corresponding to "oppressive judgment." But LUTHER, "His length of life," that is, there shall be no end of His future days (Isaiah 53:10; Romans 6:9). CALVIN includes the days of His Church, which is inseparable from Himself. HENGSTENBERG, "His posterity." He, indeed, shall be cut off, but His race shall be so numerous that none can fully declare it. CHYRSOSTOM, etc., "His eternal sonship and miraculous incarnation."

cut off—implying a violent death (Daniel 9:26).

my people—Isaiah, including himself among them by the word "my" [HENGSTENBERG]. Rather, JEHOVAH speaks in the person of His prophet, "My people," by the election of grace (Hebrews 2:13).

was he stricken—Hebrew, "the stroke (was laid) upon Him." GESENIUS says the Hebrew means "them"; the collective body, whether of the prophets or people, to which the Jews refer the whole prophecy. But JEROME, the Syriac, and Ethiopiac versions translate it "Him"; so it is singular in some passages; Psalms 11:7, His; Job 27:23, Him; Isaiah 44:15, thereto. The Septuagint, the Hebrew, lamo, "upon Him," read the similar words, lamuth, "unto death," which would at once set aside the Jewish interpretation, "upon them." ORIGEN, who laboriously compared the Hebrew with the Septuagint, so read it, and urged it against the Jews of his day, who would have denied it to be the true reading if the word had not then really so stood in the Hebrew text [LOWTH]. If his sole authority be thought insufficient, perhaps lamo may imply that Messiah was the representative of the collective body of all men; hence the equivocal plural-singular form.

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