Primary source
Targum Jonathan on Isaiah 52:13
The Aramaic Targum’s rendering of the opening line of Isaiah’s fourth servant song.
- Publisher
- Sefaria
- Tradition
- Jewish Aramaic Bible translation
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
Citation
Targum Jonathan on Isaiah 52:13, English from C. W. H. Pauli, “The Chaldee Paraphrase on the Prophet Isaiah” (London, 1871), Sefaria, accessed October 6, 2026.
Where this source is used
- The New Testament misuses the Hebrew BibleSome citations fail as predictions. Read as the pattern-reading Jewish interpreters also practiced, they make a different claim, one you can test against the Hebrew.
- The suffering servant is IsraelIsaiah does call Israel his servant. Isaiah 53 describes an innocent individual struck for "my people," who dies and then lives, a profile that strains the national reading.
- Jesus and messianic prophecyIsolated proof texts do not settle the question. A pattern of suffering and reign runs through Isaiah, Zechariah, Daniel, Micah, and the Psalms.