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.
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
All we like sheep have gone astray,.... Here the prophet represents all the elect of God, whether Jews or Gentiles; whom he compares to "sheep", not for their good qualities, but for their foolishness and stupidity; and particularly for their being subject to go astray from the shepherd, and the fold, and from their good pastures, and who never return of themselves, until they are...
Penitent confession of believers and of Israel in the last days (Zac 12:10). sheep . . . astray-- (Psa 119:176; Pe1 2:25). The antithesis is, "In ourselves we were scattered; in Christ we are collected together; by nature we wander, driven headlong to destruction; in Christ we find the way to the gate of life" [CALVIN].