Doug -
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Jesus was being sarcastic.
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the "thee" is referring to God giving Jesus as a covenant
Typical Christian misreading, out of context, and even out of step with Christian theology. The correct translation of the two verses is:

Isaiah 42:6-7 - (6) I am the L-rd; I called you with righteousness and I will strengthen your hand; and I formed you, and I made you for a people's covenant, for a light to nations.
7. To open blind eyes, to bring prisoners out of a dungeon, those who sit in darkness out of a prison.


Since, according the Christianity, yeshu is divine and part of the godhead,

- Why would G-d have to strengthen His own hand?
- If this were a reference to yeshu, and he was, according to Christianity, the first of all creations, why doesn't it say here that he was created instead of being formed?
- Did G-d form Himself?

You have a few problems to solve here, Doug.

Now, as to the Jewish POV, the Jewish Sages are divided on who the subject is. The majority say it is Israel; others have proposed the Messiah, Isaiah, and even an allusion to Cyrus, as being the subject here. Any of these interpretations is acceptable and can be justified from within the Hebrew Bible. Attempting to forec-fit yeshu into this is like trying to push a square peg into a round hole.
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Like Moses, the mission of Jesus was not world peace
Moses wasn't our Messiah. So you admit here that neither was yeshu your messiah. The Hebrew Bible clearly points out that one of the missions of our promised Messiah is to bring peace to the world.

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