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I have a question that has been bothering me. Is this prophecy about Jesus Christ?

Isaiah 53:

“1”: Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

“2”: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root 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 him.

“3”: He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

“4”: Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

“5”: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

“6”: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

“7”: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a 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 shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
 
Yes, it does apply to Jesus. It’s part of what’s called the fourth servant song. Isaiah has four of them in his book.

The song begins, I believe, at 52:13 and goes all the way to 53:12.

The Jews believed at least 3 of the 4 servant songs were messianic in nature. But you gotta wonder how they reconciled the Suffering Servant with the “one like the Son of Man” coming down on a cloud.

Catholics who attend Daily Mass during Easter Week can see all four of these songs together. The first on Monday (Is. 42:1-7), 2nd on Tuesday (Is. 49:1-6), 3rd on Wednesday (Is. 50:4-9a), and then the 4th during the Good Friday Ceremony (Is. 52:13 - 53:12).
 
Jewish interpretation has bounced back and forth between the messiah and isreal as the object.
 
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