Where is it in the Bible?
Isaiah 53:6
6We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
In other translations
- ESV
- 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- NLT
- 6All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all.
- CSB
- 6We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the LORD has punished him for the iniquity of us all.
- KJV
- 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
The surrounding passage
Isaiah 53:4–8, King James Version
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He 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.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Context
From the same Servant Song as verse 5 (52:13–53:12). The speakers confess that they themselves were the ones who wandered, and that the LORD laid their guilt on the suffering servant. The next verse compares the servant to a lamb led silently to the slaughter (53:7).
About the book of Isaiah
Judgment, the Messiah, and the Suffering Servant.
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