Is. lii. 3 is Messianically applied in the Talmud (Sanh. 97 b), while the last clause of

verse 2 is one of the passages quoted in the Midrash on Lamentations (see Is. xi. 12).

The well-known Evangelic declaration in Is. lii. 7 is thus commented upon in Yalkut (vol.

ii. p. 53 c): In the hour when the Holy One, blessed be His Name, redeems Israel, three

days before Messiah comes Elijah, and stands upon the mountains of Israel, and weeps

and mourns for them, and says to them: Behold the land of Israel, how long shall you

stand in a dry and desolate land? And his voice is heard from the world's end to the

world's end, and after that it is said to them: Peace has come to the world, peace has come

to the world, as it is said: How beautiful upon the mountains, &c. And when the wicked

hear it, they rejoice, and they say one to the other: Peace has come to us. On the second

day he shall stand upon the mountains of Israel, and shall say: Good has come to the

world, good has come to the world, as it is written: That bringeth good tidings of good.

On the third day he shall come and stand upon the mountains of Israel, and say: Salvation

has come to the world, salvation has come to the world, as it is written: That publisheth

Similarly, this passage is quoted in Yalkut on Ps. cxxi. 1. S ee also our remarks on Cant.

ii. 13.

Verse 8 is one of the passages referred to in the Midrash on Lamentations quoted above,

and frequently in other places as Messianic.

Verse 12 is Messianically applied in Shemoth R. 15 and 19.

Verse 13 is applied in the Targum expressly to the Messiah. On the words 'He shall be

exalted and extolled' we read in Yalkut ii. (Par. 338, p. 53 c, lines 7 &c. from the

bottom): He shall be higher than Abraham, to whom applies Gen. xiv. 22; higher than

Moses, of whom Num. xi. 12 is predicated; higher than the ministering angels, of whom

Ezek. i. 18 is said. But to Him there applies this in Zech. iv. 7: 'Who art thou, O great

mountain?' 'And He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities,

and the chastiseme nt of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed.' R.

Huma says, in the name of R. Acha: All sufferings are divided into three parts; one part

goes to David and the Patriarchs, another to the generation of the rebellion (rebellious

Israel), and the third to the King Messiah, as it is written (Ps. ii. 7), 'Yet have I set My

King upon My holy hill of Zion.' Then follows a curious quotation from the Midrash on

Samuel, in which the Messiah indicates that His dwelling is on Mount Zion, and that guilt

is connected with the destruction of its walls.

In regard to Is. liii. we remember, that the Messianic name of 'Leprous' (Sanh. 98 b) is

expressly based upon it. Is. liii. 10 is applied in the Targum on the passage to the

Kingdom of the Messiah.