Any one with a little of commonsense can see that you are trying to mess up with the text but it won't help you. Isaiah 53:2 fits Israel as a glove. At least, the name of the Suffering Servant is identified as Israel by name by the Prophet (Isaiah 41:8,9; 44:1,2,21) throughout the book of Isaiah. How about Yeshua or Jesus, can you find his name in the Tanach?Absolutely not! So, you cannot replace Israel the People with an individual that to the Tanach is completely alien. I am sorry, Mr. Perets.
How can I be messing up the text? You say Israel is the "he" and "him" as well as the "we" and "our". Therefore, it should be no problem substituting "Israel" for those pronouns. YOU are, in fact, messing up the text by your ridiculous assertions.
Here is the correct idea the text is bringing forth;
Isaiah 53:2 For Maschiach shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; Maschiach had no form nor comeliness, that Israel should look upon Maschiach, nor beauty that Israel should delight in Maschiach.
The name "Yeshua" is found many times in the Tanakh. Yeshua is YHWH's servant. You seem to think only Israel can be YHWH's servant.
Isa 20:3 And YHWH said: 'Like as
My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia, JPS
Gen 26:24 And YHWH appeared unto him the same night, and said: 'I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for
My servant Abraham's sake.'
Num 12:7
My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house;
Num 14:24 But
My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
2Sa 7:5 'Go and tell
My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build Me a house for Me to dwell in?
Job 1:8 And YHWH said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered
My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?'
YHWH has many servants. The ultimate servant, the one in whose mouth was no guile, the one who never sinned, the who Israel was speaking about through the prophet Isaiah in chapter 53, is Yeshua HaMaschiach.
Zec 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they are men that are a sign; for, behold, I will bring forth
My servant the Shoot. JPS
Who is "the Shoot"? Who is this servant? It is the same servant that grows out of the stump of Jesse (an Israelite);
Isa 11:1 And there shall come forth
a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.
Isa 11:2 And the spirit of YHWH shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of YHWH.
Isa 11:3 And his delight shall be in the fear of YHWH; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;
Isa 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the land; and he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isa 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Jesse was an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin. This is a messianic passage. Israel doesn't even come close to fulfilling these verses. Maschiach is the "shoot" here and in Zechariah 3:8.
