1 Who hath believed our report?

And to whom is the Zero'a Hashem[a] revealed?

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

and as a Shoresh (Root, Shoresh Yishai, Moshiach Ben Dovid)[b] 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[c] 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)[d] our sorrows;

yet we did esteem him stricken,[e]

smitten of G-d,[f] and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced[g] for our transgressions,

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

the musar (chastisement) that brought us shalom[h] 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[i](way);

and Hashem hath laid on him[j]

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[k](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[l] out of Eretz Chayyim[m]

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

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

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

and with the oisher[p](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.[q]

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,[r]

He shall prolong his yamim (days)

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

11 He[t] shall see of the travail of his[u] nefesh, and shall be satisfied;

by knowledge of him[v]

shall Tzadik Avdi (My Righteous Servant)[w] justify many;[x]

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

and made intercession[aa] for the transgressors.[bb]

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