By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Christ bore griefs and sorrows without shrinking or sinking under them, though the load was heavy and the way long. He was smitten with the tongue by cavilers and contradicted on all sides, then smitten with the hand by blow after blow, scourged without mercy, wounded in hands and feet and side, till scarcely a whole skin remained on Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 53:4-9
He was taken from prison, and from judgment,.... After he had suffered and died, and made satisfaction to divine justice; or after he had been arrested by the justice of God, and was laid in prison, and under a sentence of condemnation, had judgment passed upon him, and that executed too; he was taken in a very little time from the prison of the grave...
Rather, "He was taken away (that is, cut off) by oppression and by a judicial sentence"; a hendiadys for, "by an oppressive judicial sentence" [LOWTH and HENGSTENBERG]. GESENIUS not so well, "He was delivered from oppression and punishment" only by death. English Version also translates, "from . . . from," not "by . . .