Yeshayah 53

¹Who hath believed our report?

And to whom is the Zero'a Hashem revealed?

²For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,

and as a Shoresh (Root, Shoresh Yishai, Moshiach Ben Dovid) 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 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) our sorrows;

yet we did esteem him stricken,

smitten of G-d, and afflicted.

⁵But he was pierced for our transgressions,[#53:5 Isa 51:9; Zech 12:10 Sukkah 52a, Ps 22:17 Targum Hashivim]

he was bruised mei'avonoteinu (for our iniquities) ;

the musar (chastisement) that brought us shalom 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 (way) ;

and Hashem hath laid on him

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 (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 out of Eretz Chayyim

mipesha ami (for the transgression of my people [Yisroel]) ,

nega (plague) lamo ([fell] on him) .

⁹And he made his kever (grave) with the resha'im,

and with the oisher (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.

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,

He shall prolong his yamim (days)

and the chefetz Hashem (pleasure, will of Hashem ) shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹He shall see of the travail of his nefesh, and shall be satisfied;[#53:11; #53:11 Moshiachʼs]

by knowledge of him

shall Tzadik Avdi (My Righteous Servant) justify many;

for he 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 (bore) [like the Yom Kippur scapegoat] the sin of many,

and made intercession for the transgressors.