Isaiah 53 Verse 10

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Yes, Blue Bird, very good questions.

Here are some answers -

Israel is mentioned earlier as despised and rejected in Chapter 49 verses 7 and 26, Chapter 52 verse 4, 54 verse 11, 60 verse14, Jeremiah 50 verse 33

Wounded (the correct translation is "from" the sins of others, not "for" the sins of others) - Isaiah 1 verse 5, Jeremiah 11 verse 19, 30 verse 12

Even if you are not convinced the servant is Israel, we know the servant is not a single person as Isaiah in his usual poetic form goes back and forth referencing the servant in the singular and the plural.

For instance 53:8 mentions the servant as "them" and later also mentions "deaths" in the plural in reference to the servant.

You can find many other places in the Hebrew bible where the themes/words used in Isaiah 53 are related to Israel.

Here is a very detailed paper on all of Isaiah 53 that explains line by line - https://uriyosef.files.wordpress.com/202...sa53jp.pdf