Isaiah 53:7

+ 53:7 a MP: Messiah is oppressed and afflicted but does not speak out in his own defense. (Matt 27:11-14) He was oppressed, 2 yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. 1 + 53:7 b MP: Messiah, in likeness of a sacrificial lamb, is silent before his accusers. (See also Ps 35:11). (Matt 27:12-14; John 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18-19, 2:23) As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, + 53:7. Quoted in Rev 5:6 2 and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, 2 so he didn’t open his mouth. + 53:7. Quoted in 1 Pet 2:23 1

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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.

In Context

6+ 53:6 a MP: We have strayed like sheep away from our atonement. (1 Pet 2:25) All we like sheep have gone astray. 2 Everyone has turned to + 53:6. Quoted in 1 Pet 2:25 his own way; 2 + 53:6 b MP: Messiah bears the sins for all mankind, like the scapegoat removed from the camp on Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] (Lev 16:10). (Rom 5:17-18 (Rom 5:6-10, 5:15-21); Heb 9:28) (Also referenced in: 1 Cor 15:3b; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 John 2:2, 3:5, 4:10) and Adonai has laid on him את the depravity (moral evil) of us all. 1

8+ 53:8 a MP: Messiah is confined and oppressed without opposition. (Mark 14:53-65; Acts 8:27-35) After forcible arrest and + 53:8 a MP: Messiah is confined and judged. (John 18:12-13, 18:19-24) sentencing, he was taken away; 2 את and none of his generation protested 2 + 53:8 b MP: Messiah is killed / “cut off” as just punishment in place of the people’s transgressions. (Acts 8:33; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 1:18-19) his being cut off out of the land of the living + 53:8. (7-8) Quoted in Acts 8:32-33 2 for the rebellious breach of relationship of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 38:15For in you, Adonai, do I hope. 2 You will answer, Lord my God. 1

Matthew 26:63+ 26:63 (63-34) MP: Messiah is called the “stock planted” by God, God’s son, and the Son of Man and seated at the right hand of God. Jewish Targum refers to “Son of my Right Hand” as King Messiah. (Ps 80:15, 80:17) + 26:63 (63-64) MPr: If Israel behaved in a worthy manner, the Messiah would come in the clouds of heaven (in glory and power); if otherwise, Messiah will come humble, and riding upon a donkey colt. (Dan 7:13 in Talmud Sanhedrin 98A). (Dan 7:13) (Donkey: Matt 21:2-7; Clouds: Matt 24:30-31, 26:63-64; 1 Thes 4:16-17; Rev 1:7) But Yeshua [Salvation] held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the Elohim Chayim [Living God], that you tell us whether you are the Messiah [Anointed one], the Ben-Elohim ·Son of Elohim God·.”

Mark 14:61But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah [Anointed one], the Son of the Blessed?”

Luke 23:9He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 53:5-10

The Humiliation of the Messiah. ( b. c. 706.) 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But 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. 6 All 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. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened… Read the whole commentary →

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