the passive participial construction is thus retained.9 The thought is that the servant himself has been made to know sicknesses. Again, the picture is not that of one whose body is weakened by physical sickness, for the word sickness here stands for sin. Isaiah is using the same figure that he had earlier employed (1:5b, 6). The following predicate is capable of two interpretations, either and as a hiding of faces from us, or and as a hiding of faces from him.10 On the first construction the thought