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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THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE
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Isaiah 53
53
1Who has believed what we have heard?#53:1 Or believed our report
And to whom has the arm of the Lord#Is 30:30; 40:10; 48:14; 51:9; 52:10; Lk 1:51; Ac 13:17 been revealed?#Jn 12:38; Rm 10:16
2He grew up before him like a young plant#Is 11:1
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at him,
no appearance that we should desire him.#Is 52:14
3He was despised and rejected by men,#Ps 22:6; Is 49:7; Lk 18:31–33
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.#Mk 8:31; Jn 1:10–11; Heb 4:15
He was like someone people turned away from;#53:3 Lit And like a hiding of faces from him
he was despised, and we didn’t value him.
4Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,
and he carried our pains;#Mt 8:17; 1Pt 2:21
but we in turn regarded him stricken,
struck down by God,#Ps 69:26 and afflicted.
5But he was pierced because of our rebellion,#Is 53:8; Rm 4:25; 1Co 15:3; Heb 9:28
crushed because of our iniquities;#Is 1:4
punishment#Jr 2:30; Zph 3:2; Heb 5:8 for our peace was on him,
and we are healed by his wounds.#1Pt 2:24–25
6We all went astray like sheep;#Mt 18:12
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished him
for#53:6 Or has placed on him; lit with the iniquity#Is 13:11 of us all.#2Co 5:21; Col 2:14
7He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not open his mouth.#Jr 11:19; Mt 26:63; 27:12–14; Lk 23:9; Jn 19:9; Ac 8:32–33; 1Pt 2:23
8He was taken away because of oppression and judgment,
and who considered his fate?#53:8 Or and as for his generation, who considered him?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
9He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
but he was with a rich man at his death,#Mt 27:57–60
because he had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully.#Heb 4:15; 1Pt 2:22; 1Jn 3:5
10Yet the Lord was pleased#Is 44:28; 55:11 to crush him severely.#53:10 Or him; he made him sick.#Dt 29:22; Is 17:11
When#53:10 Or If you make him a guilt offering,#Lv 5:1–19
he will see his seed, he will prolong his days,
and by his hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.#Is 46:10
11After his anguish,
he will see light#53:11 DSS, LXX; MT omits light and be satisfied.
By his knowledge,
my righteous#1Jn 2:1 servant#Is 42:1 will justify many,#Ac 13:39; Rm 5:18–19
and he will carry their iniquities.
12Therefore I will give him#53:12 Or him with the many as a portion,
and he will receive#53:12 Or receive with the mighty as spoil,
because he willingly submitted to death,#Mt 26:42; Jn 10:14–18; Php 2:6–8
and was counted among the rebels;#Lk 22:37
yet he bore the sin of many#Heb 9:28
and interceded for the rebels.#Lk 23:34; Rm 8:34; Heb 7:25
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