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Isaiah 53:6

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Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading notes that this reading returns to the same clause of Isaiah 53:6 already treated, now stressing divine initiative rather than universal sin. On this reading 'all have gone astray, and God laid the iniquity on the Servant' is one sentence with two grammatically inseparable components, so splitting them yields two prophecy-claims from one line, itself a restatement of verses 4-5. Galatians 1:4 does not quote Isaiah; it echoes the theme of self-giving for sins. Critics also observe that the sometimes-cited Romans 8:32 cross-reference is not independently confirmed here.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

This reading isolates the divine-initiative element of Isaiah 53:6, that God, not chance, lays the iniquity on the Servant, and connects it to Galatians 1:4, where Christ gives himself for sins according to the will of God. On the fulfillment reading the convergence of God's deliberate purpose in Isaiah and the Father's will in Paul shows the atonement to be planned rather than accidental. Advocates treat the divine-will dimension as a distinct correspondence from the universality-of-sin dimension drawn separately from the same verse.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Galatians 1:4 Echo

    Galatians 1:4 shares the theme of Christ giving himself for sins by God's will but has no verbal quotation of Isa 53:6 and no citation formula.