פירוש על ישעיהו 53:10

And the Lord wished to crush him, He made him ill The Holy One, blessed be He, wished to crush him and to cause him to repent; therefore, he made him ill.

דַּכְּאוׂ To bruise him. It is in form similar to דַּבְּרוׂ, to speak with him (Gen. 37:4). It is Piel.

If his soul makes itself restitution, etc. Said the Holy One, blessed be He, “I will see, if his soul will be given and delivered with My holiness to return it to Me as restitution for all that he betrayed Me, I will pay him his recompense, and he will see children, etc.” This word אָשָׁם is an expression of ransom that one gives to the one against when he sinned, amende in O.F., to free from faults, similar to the matter mentioned in the episode of the Philistines (I Sam. 6:3), “Do not send it away empty, but you shall send back with it a guilt offering (אָשָׁם).”

החלי He hath put him to grief. It is a verb ל״ה, but conjugated like a verb ¹⁰The Hiphil of the verb ל״א has Hirek in the second syllable followed by יא, e.g. קרא he called, הִקְרִיא, while the Hiphil of the verb ל״ה has Kamez followed by ה, e.g. קרה he met, הִקְרׇה. This distinction is, however, not always adhered to: so here החלִי, the apocopated form of החלִיא, instead of החלׇה the root being חלה.;ל״א comp. תחלואיה אשר חלה the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it (Deut. 29:21). God was pleased to bruise him, to chastise him with exile.

אם תשים אשם נפשו If his soul shall set his guilt¹¹A. V., When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. before him, that is, if he will confess and fear the Lord.¹²The corresponding words of the Hebrew text are יראת השם. But they are not required at all for the explanation of the words in question, and are besides, in no grammatical connection with the preceding words. They are superfluous, and are probably nothing more than a repetition of the succeeding יראה, which was wrongly changed into יראת ה׳. He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days. He and his children will enjoy the salvation, which the Lord will grant them. This refers to that generation which will return to God, that is, to the law of God, in the days of Messiah.

And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. The true religion shall prosper, all nations will accept it.