Who Crushed the Servant in Isaiah 53, God or the Nations?

If Isaiah 53 describes Israel suffering at the hands of the nations, why does the same chapter say the Lord chose to crush the servant? A caller raises this tension in the traditional Jewish reading. Dr. Brown reads the chapter as a traditional Jew would understand it, shows where that interpretation breaks down, discusses why even the rendering "because of our sins" is still substitutionary, and describes why the passage fits only the Messiah.

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