Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 53:6

6 All we like sheep have gone a stray : we have turned every one to his own way , and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

All mankind, the Jews no less than the Gentiles.

Which are simple and foolish Creatures, and exceeding apt to straggle and lose themselves.

From God, and from the way of his Precepts, in which he put our first Parents, and in which he commanded us to walk.

In general, to the way and course of sin, which may well be called a mans own way, as sins are called mens own Lusts, Jam. 1. 14. 2 Pet. 3. 3. and elsewhere, because sin is natural to us, inherent in us, born with us, and very dear to us; and in particular, to those several paths of divers Lusts, which several men chuse and follow, according to their differing Opinions, Inclinations, Occasions, and Circumstances.

Heb. hath made to meet, as all the Rivers meet in the Sea.

Not properly, for so he knew no sin, 2 Cor. 5. 21. but the punishment of iniquity, as that word is most frequently used, as Gen. 4. 13. Lev. 20. 17, &c. That which was due for all the sins of all his people, whether Jews or Gentiles, which must needs be so great and heavy a load, that if he had not been God as well as Man, he must have sunk under the burden of them. This was actually verified in Christ. And both this and divers other passages here do as manifestly and fully point at Christ, as if they were not a prophetical Representation of things to come, but an historical Relation of them after they were done. Nor do I see how they can be excused from a fearful wresting of the Scripture that expound these places of the Prophet Ieremiah, or any other person but Christ.

Marginal references: Heb. hath made the iniquities of us all to meet on him.