Isaiah 53: Jesus lifted our pains and knowing our diseases, got contaminated by bearing them and got struck by Yehoweh for our sin

1: Who had caused to confirm (Hifil Amen) our news?

And to whom has Yehoweh’s outreach (arm) been uncovered?

2: And He ascends like a sucker (shoot from the base of a cut tree) to His Face.

And as a root from dry (tsiyah~Zion) land (eretz).

He (has) no profile, and no outward (ornamental) beauty (khadhar vs khod in Ps 21:5, khod being revelatory beauty)   and (so that) we see him.

And no appearance (m’reah) and (so that) we desire (khamadh) him (vs Gen 2:9 trees which were desirable ( nifal- khamadh) appearances (m’reah)).

3: He is despised (either Nifal yiqtol 3ms or Nifal participle ms)*.

And refused by men,

a man of pains (makob),

knowing (like the back of his hand – yada) diseases (kholi).

And as a secret, despised*  from Him,  are faces.

And we had not reckoned Him.

4: Nevertheless He had lifted up our diseases,

He had carried our pains.

And so we considered Him

 ‘contaminated’  (touched to contaminate – nagua from nagaa)

‘defeated’ (struck to defeat – mookaiy from naka)

God (Elohim)

– and depressed (mayoonaiy fom ana).

5: And He,

pierced (chalal) for our rebellion-sins (Psha),

crushed for our futile-panting-for-nothing-sins (Aven),

Chastened for our wholenesses on Him.

And by His bruises, we, we were healed.

6: All of us, like sheep, had wandered. A man had faced his way.

Yehoweh had caused Him to encounter futile-sin of us all.

7:  He was driven (picture a driver whipping an animal pulling a cart).

And he was depressed (pushed down).

And He does not open His mouth.

8: He was whisked from oppression (Caiaphas?) and to justice (Pilate?)  in His generation (Jn 18:28). Who complains?

He was sliced from the land of the living, for a plague of my people’s rebellion-sin to Him.

9: And He gives The Wicked His grave and The Rich in His death over no violence He had done and no deceit in His mouth.

10: And Yehoweh was delighted to strike Him (rather than us), cause Him illness when you make a guilt offering of His soul.

He sees a seed cause to extend days and Yehoweh’s delight prospers in His Hand.

11: He sees His Soul’s work.

He is satisfied in the knowledge that My Just Servant will cause justification of a great many.

And He bears-burden of their futile-sin. 

12: Therefore I apportion Him with great-ones and the mighty-ones.

He apportions spoil under (?Sheol) which He had caused to uncover (in) His Soul’s death. 

And He was counted with rebellious-sinners.

And He lifted up a great-many missing-the-mark-sins.

And He causes intervening (paga – Intercession, meeting-up, pagash – righteousness and justice meet Ps 85:10) for rebellious-sinners.

Pause and think about that! Prayer: I don’t know what to say when I realize the gruesome punishment You took on from Your Father for me. An un-repayable debt. O the deep love of the Father, O the redeeming work of the Son’s soul. I may have heard this from my birth but nearly 60 years later, I am still dumbstruck by the enormity of the suffering He undertook for us! I am deeply thankful though – What a plight He rescued us from! Amen

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