Isaiah 53:8

He was taken away by oppression and judgement. 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?

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In The King James Version

He 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.

In Context

7He 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.

9They 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.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Isaiah 53:5But 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.

Lamentations 3:54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Matthew 1:1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

John 11:49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

Acts 8:33In his humiliation, his judgement was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

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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