be human. He is not the attractive figure that so many of the world’s conquerors have been or pretended to be. Whether this thought continues into 52:15 depends on what is done with the first main verb in that verse. The meaning of the verb nzh in Hebrew is to sprinkle something on something else. But in each of its occurrences, what follows is what is sprinkled, and the indirect object—what is sprinkled upon—is marked by a preposition. Thus, normal syntax would require that here the nations are