Isaiah 53:6 (The Message)
2-6The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
a scrubby plant in a parched field.
There was nothing attractive about him,
nothing to cause us to take a second look.
He was looked down on and passed over,
a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
that God was punishing him for his own failures.
But it was our sins that did that to him,
that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost.
We've all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong,
on him, on him.
NKJV - Isa 53:6 - All 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 - Isa 53:6 - All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.
NIV - Isa 53:6 - We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
ESV - Isa 53:6 - All 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.
When i read this verse in context than i realized that it still applies how non-christians look at christianity...but also how so called Christians can miss seeing Jesus in other people who we look down to......( What you haven't done to the least of these you haven't done to me......)
The verse looked up in concordance1) small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks
a) small cattle (usually of sheep and goats)
b) of multitude (simile)
c) of multitude (metaphor)
1) to err, wander, go astray, stagger
a) (Qal) to err
1) to wander about (physically)
2) of intoxication
3) of sin (ethically)
4) wandering (of the mind)
b) (Niphal)
1) to be made to wander about, be made to stagger (drunkard)
2) to be led astray (ethically)
c) (Hiphil) to cause to wander
1) to cause to wander about (physically)
2) to cause to wander (of intoxication)
3) to cause to err, mislead (mentally and morally)
1) to turn
a) (Qal)
1) to turn toward or from or away
2) to turn and do
3) to turn, decline (of day)
4) to turn toward, approach (of evening)
5) to turn and look, look, look back or at or after or for
b) (Piel) to turn away, put out of the way, make clear, clear away
c) (Hiphil)
1) to turn
2) to make a turn, show signs of turning, turn back
d) (Hophal) to be turned back
1) way, road, distance, journey, manner
a) road, way, path
b) journey
c) direction
d) manner, habit, way
e) of course of life (fig.)
f) of moral character (fig.)
1) perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity
a) iniquity
b) guilt of iniquity, guilt (as great), guilt (of condition)
c) consequence of or punishment for iniquity
1) to encounter, meet, reach, entreat, make intercession
a) (Qal)
1) to meet, light upon, join
2) to meet (of kindness)
3) to encounter, fall upon (of hostility)
4) to encounter, entreat (of request)
5) to strike, touch (of boundary)
b) (Hiphil)
1) to cause to light upon
2) to cause to entreat
3) to make entreaty, interpose
4) to make attack
5) to reach the mark
I look all those verses and meanigs of strongs up in biblegateway and Blue Letter Bible
It was interesting to me to discover the different nuances every translation makes.....
And how the Words speaks a lot figuratively like the meaning that we are like sheeps....following in groups all with the same ideas and manners what is commonly accepted....Than we really go astray far a way from God....
We have to turn back .....The Shepperd search for His sheep.......calls us back and i love the word in the NLT version YET.....the LORD laid on HIM..........
What would we have done if JESUS wasn't send by the LORD for all our sins...for al our iniquities......?? He came as a servant for all of us and also as THE KING OF KINGS........
Link to The Power of Your Love to read about this verse and join also in memorizing a verse for the coming week
Romans 12!