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Christians love to talk about Isaiah Chapter 53. Is it about Jesus?

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Isaiah, Chapter 53 by David Zephaniah This translation is from the original Old Testament, Tanach (= Torah, Prophets, and Scriptures), directly from Hebrew. There is only one version of the original. 1. The nations will say to one another: Were we to hear from others what we see, it would be unbelievable. The arm of the Lord is revealed like this, with greatness and glory, to whom was it revealed until now?   2. And [this nation of Israel], before the greatness came to it, was a very humble people, and it came up by itself from a dry land, like a sapling of the saplings of the trees. When we saw him from the beginning without the great appearance, how could we desire him? Now shall we desire him?       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. (So is the custom of this prophet: he mentions all Israel as one man, e.g., (44:2), “Fear not, My servant Jacob”; (44: