http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%2053&version=9
2007-11-16 15:47:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus Christ, the son of God and the redeemer of sinful man.
2007-11-16 15:49:44 · answer #1 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Please note I am copying this for a Yom Kippur Machzor, "Prayer Book for the Day of Atonement , English translation by Dr. A. Th. Philips, Hebrew Publishing Co., New York. 1931"
Near the bottom of page 239 you will find the following :.....
"He hath borne the yoke of our iniquities, and our transgression, and is wounded because of our transgression. He beareth our sins on his shoulder, that he may find pardon for our iniquities. We shall be healed by his wound, at the time that the Eternal will create him (the Messiah) as a new creature. O bring him up from the circle of the earth. Raise him up from Seir, to assemble us the second time on Mount Lebanon, by the hand of (......)."
Note: parentheses are copied from original , second set contains the word "Yinom" in Hebrew which I cant type. This passage is based in part on Isaiah 53:5 (Yinom is from Psalms 72:17).
Apparently as recently as the 30's Isaiah 53 was understood to be about Messiah. There is also a reference in Ruth Rabbah that connects these verses in Isaiah with Messiah.
2007-11-17 00:42:37 · answer #2 · answered by robb 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ethiopian eunuch? Is that you? ;) Of course it refers to Jesus, the Messiah. A few of the other answerers are right in telling you that the Messiah passage actually starts a few verses back in Isaiah 52.
I know a man who is big into apologetics (seriously --- he runs possibly the biggest apologetics website out there). He says that he often witnesses to Jewish people by asking to discuss the OT to them and reading this to them and not telling them where it comes from. He says that more than once, he has had a Jew say to him that they only agreed to read the OLD TESTAMENT with him --- and that this passage is clearly about Jesus, and from the NT. Isn't that cool? :)
2007-11-17 00:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by KL 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The who that Isaiah is Prophesying about is the Birth of Jesus.
This was Prophesied seven-hundred years before the birth of Jesus. He speaks of Jesus growing-up, but only briefly.
Isaiah said, "He would be despised and rejected by men. a man of of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. He was despised, and we esteemed Him not."
What a Prophecy. Everything that the Prophets has spoken has been fulfilled, except the return of Jesus, and that could happen any day now!
2007-11-17 00:14:28 · answer #4 · answered by NJ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It speaks of the people Israel. Isaiah 53 is actually incorrectly separated from Isaiah 52.
It is not messianic.
Direct analysis of the text:
http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/web/faq/faq136.html
Multiple explanations of the text:
http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/web/faq/faq-ss.html
2007-11-16 23:52:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The "servant" of God, presumably the Messiah, though non-Christian Jews deny this Messianic nature.
2007-11-16 23:52:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Christ, The Messiah
2007-11-16 23:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like a perfect description of Jesus Christ to me.
I also saved the link to my Yahoo! Bookmarks so I will remember the website it's on.
2007-11-16 23:51:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mashiyach Y'shua,
2007-11-16 23:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The jews believe it is talking about them !!!
Many believe it is talking about Jesus the suffering messiah !!!
http://www.bibleprobe.com/365messianicprophecies.htm
2007-11-16 23:53:44 · answer #10 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋