Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and accustomed to illness, and as one who hides his face from us, despised and we held him of no account.It does not say "when he acknowledges his own guilt". After all, the passage says that he was suffering for others not for his own sins. Verse 9 says no lawless violence or lies were found in him. So Isaiah 53 definitely cannot about the "honest" "law-abiding" Servant acknowledging his own guilt.
But he was pained because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities......
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he would not open his mouth
"despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and accustomed to illness..."
definitely not referring to a god in flesh who willingly wants to get violated by a group of pagans.
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Yet you have rejected us and abased us, and have not gone out with our armies. You made us turn back from the foe, and our enemies have gotten spoil. You have made us like sheep for slaughter, and have scattered us among the nations. You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us. You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger. All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, or been false to your covenant. Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way, yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness. If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god, would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. Because of you we are being killed all day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever! Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression? For we sink down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up, come to our help. Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love. (Ps 44:9-26)
were these guys lying and violent when they were saying that they were true to their gods word?