Isaiah 53
1Who hath believed our report? 1 And to whom is the Zero'a Hashem + 53:1 Isa 52:10 revealed? 1
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, 1 and as a Shoresh (Root, Shoresh Yishai, Moshiach Ben Dovid) + 53:2 Isa 11:1,10 , Sanhedrin93b out of a dry ground; 1 he hath no form nor comeliness; 1 and when we shall see him, 1 there is no beauty that we should desire + 53:2 Hag 2:7 him. 1
3He is despised and chadal ishim (rejected by men); 1 a man of sorrows, and acquainted with suffering; 1 and we hid as it were our faces from him; 1 he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 1
4Surely he hath borne our sufferings, 1 and nasah (carried) + 53:4 Lv 16:22; Isa 53:12 our sorrows; 1 yet we did esteem him stricken, + 53:4 i.e., like a leper is stricken 1 smitten of G-d, + 53:4 See Dt 21:23 and afflicted. 1
5But he was pierced + 53:5 Isa 51:9; Zech 12:10 Sukkah 52a, Ps 22:17 Targum Hashivim for our transgressions, 1 he was bruised mei'avonoteinu (for our iniquities); 1 the musar (chastisement) that brought us shalom + 53:5 Isa 54:10 was upon him [Moshiach]; 1 and at the cost of his [Moshiachʼs] chaburah (stripes, lacerations) we are healed. 1
6All we like sheep have gone astray; 1 we have turned every one to his own derech + 53:6 see Prov 16:25 (way); 1 and Hashem hath laid on him + 53:6 Moshiach 1 the avon (iniquity, the guilt that separates from G-d) of us all. 1
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, 1 yet he opened not his mouth; 1 he is brought as a seh + 53:7 see Ex 12:3 (lamb) to the slaughter, 1 and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, 1 so he openeth not his mouth. 1
8He was taken from prison and from judgment; 1 and who of his generation declared? 1 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 1 mipesha ami (for the transgression of my people [Yisroel]), 1 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 1
9And he made his kever (grave) with the resha'im, 1 and with the oisher + 53:9 see Mt 27:57-60 (rich man) bemotayv (in his deaths, intensive plural should be translated singular, death); 1 because he had done no chamas (violence), 1 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 1
10Yet it pleased Hashem to bruise him; 1 He hath put him to suffering; 1 when Thou shalt make his nefesh an asham offering for sin, 1 he (Moshiach) shall see zera, + 53:10 See Psalm 16 and Yn 1:12 1 He shall prolong his yamim (days) 1 and the chefetz Hashem (pleasure, will of Hashem ) shall prosper in his + 53:10 Moshiachʼs hand. 1
11He + 53:11 Hashem shall see of the travail of his + 53:11 Moshiachʼs nefesh, and shall be satisfied; 1 by knowledge of him + 53:11 Moshiach 1 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 1 for he + 53:11 Moshiach shall bear their avon (iniquities). 1
12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 1 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; 1 because he hath poured out his nefesh unto mavet (death); 1 and he was numbered with the transgressors; 1 and he nasah + 53:12 Lv 16:22 (bore) [like the Yom Kippur scapegoat] the sin of many, 1 and made intercession + 53:12 did the work of a mafgi'a, intercessor for the transgressors. + 53:12 See Lk 23:34