As a lamb to the slaughter

Most Jewish people have never read the 53rd chapter in the Old Testament book of Isaiah. Yet it's a wonderful picture of Messiah's suffering for their sin, your sin and mine. His death was no accident, but a divine provision:

He is despised and rejected by men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem him.

Surely he has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon him,
And by his stripes we are healed.
vv 3 - 5.

His was a substitutionary death. We are all sinners, yet He, being without sin, died in our place, that all might be forgiven: 

All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and he was afflicted,
Yet he opened not his mouth;   
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So he opened not his mouth.
vv6, 7.

Having suffered and died, He was buried in a rich man's grave: 

He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare his generation?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of my people he was stricken.

And they made his grave with the wicked -
But with the rich at his death,
Because he had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in his mouth.
vv8, 9.

It was God's will that He should suffer, but His sacrifice perfectly satisfied the requirements of a just God: 

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him;
He has put him to grief. 
When you make his soul an offering for sin,
He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

He shall see the travail of his soul, and be satisfied.
By his knowledge my righteous Servant shall justify many,
For he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great,
And he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because he poured out his soul unto death,
And he was numbered with the transgressors,
And he bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
vv10 - 12.

Despite all the personal pronouns, many rabbis say that God is talking about Israel n this passage and not talking about the Messiah at all - in contrast to the reaction of many Jews on reading the passage for the first time: "What's Jesus doing in my Bible?"