“But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.”
The healing through wounding—'All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all'—uses pastoral imagery to depict Israel's sin and God's placement of judgment on the servant. The comparison to sheep suggests Israel's wandering and need for shepherd care. The statement that God 'laid on him the iniquity of us all' emphasizes divine agency in the atonement: God actively imposes Israel's sin on the servant. This verse consolidates the substitutionary theology by emphasizing both Israel's collective guilt and God's redemptive action.
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Isaiah 53:5
“But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.”
The healing through wounding—'All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all'—uses pastoral imagery to depict Israel's sin and God's placement of judgment on the servant. The comparison to sheep suggests Israel's wandering and need for shepherd care. The statement that God 'laid on him the iniquity of us all' emphasizes divine agency in the atonement: God actively imposes Israel's sin on the servant. This verse consolidates the substitutionary theology by emphasizing both Israel's collective guilt and God's redemptive action.
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The healing through wounding—'All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all'—uses pastoral imagery to depict Israel's sin and God's placement of judgment on the servant. The comparison to sheep suggests Israel's wandering and need for shepherd care. The statement that God 'laid on him the iniquity of us all' emphasizes divine agency in the atonement: God actively imposes Israel's sin on the servant. This verse consolidates the substitutionary theology by emphasizing both Israel's collective guilt and God's redemptive action.