Isaiah 53:4-8

He Was Wounded for Our Transgressions

⁴ _m Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
_n smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵ _o But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
_p and with his stripes we are healed.
⁶ _q All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned - every one - to his own way;
_r and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
_s yet he opened not his mouth;
_t like a _u lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, _v who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?

1. Cross References
   Matthew 8:17
   This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 69:26
   For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 4:25
   Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Peter 2:24
   He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Peter 2:25
   For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
   Jeremiah 50:6
   My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.
   Jeremiah 50:17
   Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 5:21
   For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
   Isaiah 53:10
   Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
   Colossians 2:14
   By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
   
7. Cross References
   Matthew 26:63
   But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.
   Mark 14:61
   But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
   John 19:9
   He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
   1 Peter 2:23
   When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
   
8. Cross References
   Acts 8:32
   Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.
   
9. Cross References
   Jeremiah 11:19
   But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.
   
10. Cross References
    Isaiah 57:1
    The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity.