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| C e n t e r f o r M e s s i a n i c J u d a i s m |
| READ IT FOR YOURSELF ... click HERE to read Isaiah from the official JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY "electronic" edition see how it compares to what I wrote below, trying to explain some of the Hebrew terms that are used Isaiah 53 (meaning of Hebrew words expounded upon by Abraham E. Sandler) 1. Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed? 2. For He grew up in the personal presence of God himself. Yet he was like a sprout from a fallen tree sending out new shoots And like a root out of barren, parched ground He has no magnificence, nor majesty So that we would want to look upon Him. Nor is there anything about his appearance That would cause us to desire Him 3. He was counted as vile and worthless by men And men gave Him nothing, forsaking Him. He was a man who felt pain and anguish, And from repeated afflictions He knows personally what it means to grieve. And like someone you avoid, and someone men always keep away He was considered vile, And we did not allow any connection with him. 4. It is a certain and unavoidably observable fact that is was He, I emphasize it was He Who lifted off of us and carried away our repeated afflictions. And He burdened Himself with our pain and anguish, carrying them away. And we wove a system of thinking That Elohiym was demeaning Him, mishandling Him Putting Him beneath contempt As we considered how Elohiym laid hold of Him, beating Him. 5. Especially note that it was He who was - Violated and wounded for our revolt, For our attempt to break away from God Crushed and beaten to pieces For our crookedness and perversion The blows that correct our situation, that make us safe, And give us peace Rained down on Him And the very cords by which He was bound and whipped Are now the cords by which our brokenness is mended. [ The picture here is that He had wounds from being bound, like Isaac was bound on the altar. And now because of what He suffered from being bound, the cords that tied us to the punishment we deserve before God, have been loosened, and we are set free.] 6. Perfectly complete and without exception, The multitudes of all of us wander away from God’s way And the path we make in this world looks like The staggering, erratic path Of someone who has lost their minds on drugs or alcohol. Specifically each feeble one of us walks a path where We look to ourselves. And Jehovah has imposed upon Him, Laying on Him specifically our crookedness and perversion. 7. He was oppressed, Specifically it was He who was Beneath contempt and mishandled Yet He did not open His mouth, (If he had opened his mouth, He could have blown away the affliction coming upon Him.) Like a lamb that is alone, separated from the flock, There is a flow that is bringing Him, with ceremony, to slaughter. And as a sheep is bound and silent in the presence of Those who will sheer off its wool, or cut off its life So He did not open up His mouth. 8. Bound and having been sentenced He was taken away. Who from His generation will put forth the idea That He was destroyed, cut off from the land of the living? For the attempt of my people to revolt and break away From God, He was struck. 9. When He died He was assigned a grave with the wicked And with those who accumulate things for themselves But against this humiliating end, contrast the fact that He had done no violence, he had mistreated no one Nor was any misdirection, deception or betrayal in His mouth 10. But Jehovah was inclined and took pleasure In crushing Him and beating Him to pieces, Wounding Him with repeated afflictions Moreover He is established as an offering for sin. He will live and breathe, He and His seed will enjoy beholding each other He shall lengthen His days And the desire and pleasure of Jehovah will succeed in His hand 11. He will find fulfillment When He sees the time it is unbearably difficult For Him to draw a breath This One who does what I say - By what He knows from His perception of things He shall make things right for those as numerous as drops of rain And it is specifically he who shall take the burden Of their crookedness and perversion 12. Therefore I will a assign to him the spoils that Go to the great and the powerful conqueror Because He emptied himself of breath to the point of dying And was numbered among those who were separated from God And it specifically he who lifted off The results and penalty of the myriads who have gone astray And interrupted [the judgment due to] those who are Separated from God |
| Isaiah chapter 53 |