All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Ibn Ezra
All we like sheep, etc. At last they will acknowledge the truth; that it was an error to think him smitten of God (ver. 4), comp. Surely our fathers have inherited lies, etc. (Jer. 16:14). הפגיע Hath laid. Lit. Hath caused to meet; comp. ויפגע and he alighted (Gen. 28:11). עון Lit. iniquity; here it means the punishment for the iniquity. Comp. עון punishment (1 Sam. 28:10; Gen. 15:16; Lam. 4:6). Some explain הפגיע he caused to pray; עון has, according to their opinion, the usual meaning iniquity; and the sense of the whole phrase is: God will accept the prayer of Israel, that peace shall be on earth. Comp. And seek the peace of the city, etc. (Jer. 29:7). But עון in this sense, joined with הפגיע בו, is rather an unusual construction.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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