Messiah: No. 26 All we like sheep have gone astray

The text is from Isaiah 53:6:  "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."

The ends of some of the "have gone astray" phrases sort of trail off to mirror the wandering.

Once I started looking into the notation, I also noticed that in some places, the melodies of the various parts are going in opposite directions ("we have turned ev'ry one to his own way").  Some are going up while other are going down.