“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.”
The judicial context—'By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people. They made his grave with the wicked, and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth'—situates the servant's suffering within judicial perversion. The 'perversion of justice' emphasizes that the servant's death is unjust. The juxtaposition of grave with 'the wicked' and tomb with 'the rich' suggests that the servant is placed among sinners despite his innocence. This verse emphasizes the judicial injustice accompanying the servant's suffering.
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