And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Here is the basic, universal problem of all humanity: we have turned, each of us, to our own way. There are various specific sins that many of us have never committed, such as murder, adultery, theft, and so on. But this one thing we all have in common: we have turned to our own way. In so doing, we have turned our backs on God. The Hebrew word that sums this up is avon—here translated “iniquity.” Perhaps the closest equivalent in contemporary