This week we focused on how sin affects a whole group or nation. Jesus came to bring salvation to individuals and to whole nations.

Read Isaiah 53:6-11 slowly and prayerfully.

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.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
8 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?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. (ESV)


1. Who has sinned (verse 6)?

2. Who did God lay our iniquities on (verses 6-9)?

3. What is the will of the Lord (verse 10)?

4. What does all this do to the Lord (verse 11)?

5. What one phrase from this passage will you think about throughout today?