1 Who hath believed our report?

And to whom is the Zero’a Hashem*53:1 Isa 52:10 revealed?

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

and as a Shoresh (Root, Shoresh Yishai, Moshiach Ben Dovid)*53:2 Isa 11:1,10, 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.

3 He 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.

4 Surely 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.

5 But 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.

6 All 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.

7 He 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.

8 He 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

9 And 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

10 Yet 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 Yn 1:12

He shall prolong his yamim (days)

and the chefetz Hashem (pleasure, will of Hashem) shall prosper in his*53:10 Moshiachʼs hand.

11 He*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).

12 Therefore 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*53:12 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