Yeshayah 53
53
1Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the Zero'a Hashem#53:1 Isa 52:10 revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a Shoresh (Root, Shoresh Yishai, Moshiach)#53:2 Isa 11:10, Sanhedrin93b out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire#53:2 Hag 2:7 him.
3He is despised and chadal ishim (rejected by men); a man of sorrows, and acquainted with suffering; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he hath borne our sufferings, and nasah (carried)#53:4 Lv 16:22; Isa 53:12 our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken,#53:4 i.e., like a leper is stricken smitten of G-d,#53:4 See Dt 21:23 and afflicted.
5But he was pierced#53:5 Isa 51:9; Zech 12:10 Sukkah 52a, Ps 22:17 Targum Hashivim for our transgressions, he was bruised mei'avonoteinu (for our iniquities); the musar (chastisement) that brought us shalom#53:5 Isa 54:10 was upon him [Moshiach]; and at the cost of his [Moshiachʼs] chaburah (stripes, lacerations) we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own derech#53:6 see Prov 16:25 (way); and Hashem hath laid on him#53:6 Moshiach the avon (iniquity, the guilt that separates from G-d) of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a seh#53:7 see Ex 12:3 (lamb) to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who of his generation declared? For he was cut off#53:8 Dan 9:26; Lv 17:10 out of Eretz Chayyim#53:8 this refers to the mot of Moshiach Ben Dovid, see v.12 mipesha ami (for the transgression of my people [Yisroel]), nega#53:8 cf. Ps 91:10 (plague) lamo ([fell] on him).#53:8 i.e., Moshiach; in light of Ps 11:7 and Job 22:2 we are warranted in saying the suffix is a singular, “him,” not “them”. Cf Gn 9:26-27; Dt 33:2; Isa 44:15; also compare 1Chr 21:17
9And he made his kever (grave) with the resha'im, and with the oisher#53:9 see Mt 27:57-60 (rich man) bemotayv (in his deaths, intensive plural should be translated singular, death); because he had done no chamas (violence), neither was any mirmah (deceit) in his mouth.#53:9 We stray as sheep; we return in Moshiach as children (zera); the Techiyas HaMoshiach (Resurrection of Moshiach) predicted in v. 10 Dead Sea Scrolls Isaiah Scroll says Moshiach “will see the light [of life];” see also the Targum HaShivim
10Yet it pleased Hashem to bruise him; He hath put him to suffering; when Thou shalt make his nefesh an asham offering for sin, he (Moshiach) shall see zera,#53:10 See Psalm 16 and Jn 1:12 He shall prolong his yamim (days) and the chefetz Hashem (pleasure, will of Hashem) shall prosper in his#53:10 Moshiachʼs hand.
11He#53:11 Hashem shall see of the travail of his#53:11 Moshiachʼs nefesh, and shall be satisfied; by knowledge of him#53:11 Moshiach shall Tzadik Avdi (My Righteous Servant)#53:11 Moshiach, Zech 3:8, Jer 23:5; Zech 6:11-12, Ezra 3:8 Yehoshua, Yeshua shmo justify many;#53:11 Ro 5:1 for he#53:11 Moshiach shall bear their avon (iniquities).
12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his nefesh unto mavet (death); and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he nasah (Lv 16:22, bore) [like the Yom Kippur scapegoat] the sin of many, and made intercession#53:12 did the work of a mafgi'a, intercessor for the transgressors.#53:12 See Lk 23:34
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Isaiah 53
53
1Who can believe what we have heard,
and for whose sake has the LORD’s arm#53.1 Or power been revealed?
2He grew up like a young plant before us,#53.2 Or him
like a root from dry ground.
He possessed no splendid form for us to see,
no desirable appearance.
3He was despised and avoided by others;
a man who suffered, who knew sickness well.
Like someone from whom people hid their faces,
he was despised, and we didn’t think about him.
4It was certainly our sickness that he carried,
and our sufferings that he bore,
but we thought him afflicted,
struck down by God and tormented.
5He was pierced because of our rebellions
and crushed because of our crimes.
He bore the punishment that made us whole;
by his wounds we are healed.
6Like sheep we had all wandered away,
each going its own way,
but the LORD let fall on him all our crimes.
7He was oppressed and tormented,
but didn’t open his mouth.
Like a lamb being brought to slaughter,
like a ewe silent before her shearers,
he didn’t open his mouth.
8Due to an unjust ruling he was taken away,
and his fate—who will think about it?
He was eliminated from the land of the living,
struck dead because of my people’s rebellion.
9His grave was among the wicked,
his tomb with evildoers,#53.9 Cf Tg; MT and with a rich one in his deaths
though he had done no violence,
and had spoken nothing false.
10But the LORD wanted to crush him
and to make him suffer.
If his life is offered#53.10 Or if you place his life as restitution,
he will see his offspring; he will enjoy long life.
The LORD’s plans will come to fruition through him.
11After his deep anguish he will see light,#53.11 DSS (1QIsaa); MT lacks light. and he will be satisfied.
Through his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant,
will make many righteous,
and will bear their guilt.
12Therefore, I will give him a share with the great,
and he will divide the spoil with the strong,
in return for exposing his life to death
and being numbered with rebels,
though he carried the sin of many
and pleaded on behalf of those who rebelled.
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