# General Information: Isaiah continues describing Yahweh's servant. (See: [Isaiah 53:1-2](./01.md)) # he has borne our sicknesses and carried our sorrows To "bear" or carry an abstraction like sickness and sorrow represents taking it up. Alternate translation: "he has taken our sicknesses and sorrows upon himself" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) # yet we thought he was being punished by God, struck by God, and afflicted This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "yet we thought God was punishing and afflicting him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])