Isa:53:7: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa:53:8: 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.
Servants of Jesus use this passage to validate prophesies about Jesus being killed on the Cross, but there exists another point of view of this passage that it not apart of main stream theology.
In further reading of the Old Testament one becomes aware that this passage is not referring to Jesus but it is actually prophesy about Jeremiah and specific events that occurred in his life. After Isaiah disappears Jeremiah is born about 57 years later. On average the prophesy would have occurred about 100 years before the actual event. These are the actual events that occurred in Jeremiah’s life that Isaiah prophesied about.
Jer:11:19: But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Lam:3:53: They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54: Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55: I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56: Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57: Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58: O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Jeremiah drowned and was brought back to life by GOD. With this new understanding we can now see that Isa 53:7 is actually referring to the headships of Jeremiah in delivering the Word of GOD to the Children of Israel as we fell further and further from GOD, even to the point of killing the prophets of GOD.