Isaiah 52: 14,15, which immediately precedes Isaiah 53, makes a clear distinction between Israel, my people, plural, and the messiah, him, singular. Try to understand that, at the time, claiming that some guy named "Jesus of Galilee" was the messiah sounded as ridiculous and unbelievable as claiming that some uncultured working class "criminal" named "Joey from Brooklyn" who liked to party with sinners and prostitutes and all sorts of bad characters was the awaited messiah, especially since "believers" were expecting God to fart fiery angels out of the sky in an end of the world scenario when the supernatural reality defying Messiah finally arrived to destroy the Kittim.Isaiah 53 is about God's servant Israel.
"Time was when many were aghast at you, my people, so now many nations recoil at sight of him, and kings curl their lips in disgust. For they see what they had never been told and things unheard before fill their thoughts."
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