Yes I heard that one, there are other that says that it is the Gentiles
Isa 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of Jehovah revealed?
Isa 53:2 For He comes up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; He has no form nor majesty that we should see Him, nor an appearance that we should desire Him.
Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.
To whom indeed?
1. Who would have believed our report, and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?
Who would have believed our reportSo will the nations say to one another, Were we to hear from others what we see, it would be unbelievable.
the arm of the Lord like this, with greatness and glory, to whom was it revealed until now?
2. And he came up like a sapling before it, and like a root from dry ground, he had neither form nor comeliness; and we saw him that he had no appearance. Now shall we desire him?
And he came up like a sapling before itThis people, before this greatness came to it, was a very humble people, and it came up by itself like a sapling of the saplings of the trees.
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and like a root he came up from dry land.
neither form had he in the beginning, nor comeliness.
and we saw him that he had no appearance. Now shall we desire him? And when we saw him from the beginning without an appearance, how could we desire him?
Now shall we desire him?This is a question.
3. Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and accustomed to illness, and as one who hides his face from us, despised and we held him of no account.
Despised and rejected by menwas he. So is the custom of this prophet: he mentions all Israel as one man, e.g., (44:2), Fear not, My servant Jacob ; (44:1) And now, hearken, Jacob, My servant. Here too (52:13), Behold My servant shall prosper, he said concerning the house of Jacob. יַשְׂכִּיל is an expression of prosperity. Comp. (I Sam. 18:14) And David was successful (מַשְׂכִּיל
in all his ways.
and as one who hides his face from us Because of their intense shame and humility, they were as one who hides his face from us, with their faces bound up in concealment, in order that we not see them, like a plagued man who hides his face and is afraid to look.
4. Indeed, he bore our illnesses, and our pains-he carried them, yet we accounted him as plagued, smitten by God and oppressed.
Indeed, he bore our illnessesHeb. אָכֵן, an expression of but in all places. But now we see that this came to him not because of his low state, but that he was chastised with pains so that all the nations be atoned for with Israels suffering. The illness that should rightfully have come upon us, he bore.
yet we accounted him We thought that he was hated by the Omnipresent, but he was not so, but he was pained because of our transgressions and crushed because of our iniquities.
5. But he was pained because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his wound we were healed.
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he chastisement of our welfare was upon him The chastisement due to the welfare that we enjoyed, came upon him, for he was chastised so that there be peace for the entire world.
Basically, Isaiah 53 is the exclamation of the nations when they look upon Israel when it is redeemed with awe and wonder, realizing what they did to Israel was wrong.
"We" are the nations. He is Israel.
8. From imprisonment and from judgment he is taken, and his generation who shall tell? For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people, a plague befell them.
From imprisonment and from judgment he is taken The prophet reports and says that the heathens (nations [mss., Kli Paz]) will say this at the end of days, when they see that he was taken from the imprisonment that he was imprisoned in their hands and from the judgment of torments that he suffered until now.
and his generation The years that passed over him.
who shall tell? The tribulations that befell him, for from the beginning, he was cut off and exiled from the land of the living that is the land of Israel for because of the transgression of my people, this plague came to the righteous among them.
