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"When it is said, 'The Lord laid on Him the iniquities of us all' this does not mean that God permitted indignities to be inflicted on Him by men without any divine action, but that God caused them to descend. This is further taught by the antithesis in which the exaction of justice is connected with the affliction which He bore. 'He was oppressed' - or, more strictly, He was demanded in the exercise of divine exaction - 'and He was afflicted' (vs. 7). We see the one side of the claim of offended justice, and on the other Messiah's agonies in responding to that demand. We have two parties in their several actions: the Most High demanding (and inflicting) punishment, and the Surety bearing it. But expression containing the same idea are multiplied. Thus, when it is said, 'For the transgression of my people was He stricken' (vs. 8), the allusion is to the infliction of punishment. Not only so: it is added, It pleased The Lord to bruise Him (vs. 10). These memorable words intimate that the Lord not only permitted this at the hand of man, but that had pleasure or delight in it, as it bore on His declarative glory and man's salvation. These sufferings, not in themselves, but in their scope and consequences, gave satisfaction to the Most High, who could not otherwise have had delight in it; and the supreme Author of all these sufferings was Jehovah, by whom we must understand God the. Judge of all."

George Smeaton

The Doctrine of the Atonement According to the Apostles - pg. 78-79