With His Stripes We Are Healed

Mosiah 14:3-6 and Isaiah 53:3-6

He is despised and rejected of men;
  a man of sorrows,
  and acquainted with grief:
    and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs,
         and carried our sorrows:
  yet we did esteem him
    stricken,
    smitten of God,
    and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions,
    he was bruised for our iniquities:
   the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
   and with his stripes we are healed.

All we, like sheep, have gone astray;
    we have turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all.

This poetic, messianic passage is breathtaking when you really stop to think about the Subject: the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ on our behalf.

As I arranged the verses as you see above I was struck by the near equal ratio of pronouns referring to (1) Jesus and (2) to us. Here's a count:

• he, him, his: 11
• we, our, us: 13

So, in a way these verses are as much about us and our predicament as they are about Jesus and his power to save us.