Isaiah 53 describes the man who will be God’s representation, His prophet like Moses speaking and writing His words to the Jewish people, just as He did with Moses and the Israelites, in this day of the Lord. The day described in Malachi 3 where He says He is returning with His messenger and the Angel of His presence the Holy Spirit. He is Moshiach of Isaiah 11 known as the leper scholar in the Talmud for he is familiar with disease and makes the many righteous with his knowledge.
Sages, Rabbis & Christians have never figured Isaiah 53 out. Only God’s righteous servant can interpret it properly. God had it written that way. He leaves something out that can be seen in Ezekiel (the key to 53) to make his forehead like adament, flint, and to not be dismayed by his people. He went through God’s fire of refinement pinned to the ground and taken from the land of the living (society) after God's Spirit entered him, and God is in His Spirit.
God’s fire of refinement for prophets of wounding, punishment, chastisement, maltreatment, crushing and bruising to break the will of a man, tempering his emotions and removing a furious spirit while teaching him the scripture.
In my case to become His righteous servant and make the witnesses of the combined first six verses by quotation righteous. They are sick with guilt from sinning. I offered myself for guilt agreeing to the fire of refinement. So, when the witnesses say "he was wounded for our sins" I was. Not as a vicarious taking of their sins but to endure the fire of refinement and become the righteous servant who makes the many righteous by his knowledge and removes their guilt.
Rashi says in Chapter One: "The prophecy of Zechariah is extremely enigmatic because it contains visions resembling a dream that requires an interpretation. We cannot ascertain the truth of its interpretation until the teacher of righteousness comes. Nonetheless, I will put my heart to reconciling the verses, one by one, according to the interpretations that resemble it and following the interpretation of Jonathan."
Zechariah 1/7-12 with commentary verse by verse as a Midrash separating parts of a verse for interpretation:
7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month of the second year of Darius—the month of Shebat—this word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo:
This word of the Lord: This verse continues with “In the night, I had a vision” which is not a word of the Lord.
8In the night, I had a vision. I saw a man, mounted on a bay horse, standing among the myrtles in the Deep, and behind him were bay, sorrel, and white horses.
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