There is a typo shown in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Isaiah 52:14, where it has missed a yod at the end of the word many have translated as 'Marred', which then makes the meaning of the word, 'my anointed' i.e. 'My Messiah'.
Here is a picture from the Dead Sea Scrolls with the missing yod:
כאשר שממו עליך רבים כן־משחתי מאיש מראהו ותארו מבני האדם
Isaiah 52:14 Just as many were astonished by him. For my anointed as a man, his appearance, and his form as a son of man.
This translation is my current understanding, aware could add better English; yet want a second opinion can anyone translate this better, keeping to what was originally there?
This make so much more sense of what is written with the word 'Messiah' in there; as it is silly saying the suffering servant was 'disfigured', 'marred' or 'blemished', when we've got no reason to justify it in the context of everything else said.
Especially the line before it:
Isaiah 52:13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high...
Yet he is disfigured more than any other men?
Think it makes far more logical sense with the right word, as this explains where the earlier understanding came from that Isaiah 53 is Messianic.
Here is a picture from the Dead Sea Scrolls with the missing yod:
כאשר שממו עליך רבים כן־משחתי מאיש מראהו ותארו מבני האדם
Isaiah 52:14 Just as many were astonished by him. For my anointed as a man, his appearance, and his form as a son of man.
This translation is my current understanding, aware could add better English; yet want a second opinion can anyone translate this better, keeping to what was originally there?
This make so much more sense of what is written with the word 'Messiah' in there; as it is silly saying the suffering servant was 'disfigured', 'marred' or 'blemished', when we've got no reason to justify it in the context of everything else said.
Especially the line before it:
Isaiah 52:13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high...
Yet he is disfigured more than any other men?
Think it makes far more logical sense with the right word, as this explains where the earlier understanding came from that Isaiah 53 is Messianic.