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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