He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.
Ibn Ezra
He was taken, etc. God redeemed Israel; namely, those of them that were righteous. God took them from prison, where they were kept by the judgments of vengeance. ישוחח Shall declare. Comp. שיח speak (Job. 12:8). Who could have told his generation that this could happen, since they were already as cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. Every nation will think: Israel was stricken because of our sins; comp. he was slain for our transgressions (ver. 5). The construction of the sentence is: For the transgression of my people plagues came over them. להם=למו To them, that is, to the Israelites.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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