Isaiah 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. This departing from God and His ways is fitly represented by the straying of sheep. In the general it implieth — 1. That we are brutish in our sin and defection from God: it could not be expressed but by a comparison fetched from the beasts. 2. Proneness to err. No creature is more prone to wander and lose his way than a sheep without a shepherd. 3. Our inability to return, or to bring ourselves into the right way again. 4. Our readiness to follow evil example. Sheep run one after another, and one straggler draweth away the whole flock. Austin saith, "I could wander by myself, and could not return by myself." And God saith as much (Hosea 13:9). 5. The danger of straying sheep, which when out of the pasture are often in harm's way, and exposed to a thousand dangers (Jeremiah 50:6, 7). ( T. Manton, D.D.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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