Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 53:8

"By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?" — Isaiah 53:8 (ASV)

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation?

Are there none to speak up for Christ, none to bear testimony to the purity of his life and the sinlessness of his character?

For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Oh, dwell on that great truth! The doctrine of Christ's substitution for his people is the brightest star in the galaxy of Revelation. No more cheering light ever falls upon a tearful eye than this, for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

They ought to have been stricken; their transgressions deserved the heavy blows of the rod of God's wrath; yet, for the transgression of my people was he stricken.