Not one single verse of our Jewish scripture whatsoever refers to Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Huitzilopochtli, Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy or any leader or central figure of any other non-Jewish system. Of course, if you know of some religious leader who bore the name in Isaiah 9:6, “Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” instead of being named Jesus, Mohammed, Huitzilopochtli or whatever, maybe you will have a candidate. Let us know.

CORRECTION: I made a mistake in depending on a Christian translation. That Christian translation changed the tenses from past to future. I have now looked at the Hebrew. The passage is in the past tense. It is not a prediction. It is a report. It is about a name that a person has already been called.

In the Hebrew, the verse explicitly says, in the past tense: “A child was born to us. A son has been given to us. Government (or authority) is on his shoulder. And his name has been called, ‘God-plans-a wonder-God-is-wonderful-Mighty-Eternal-a-Peaceable Ruler” Isaiah 9:6.(The JPS translation is almost exactly this, also.)

Sorry, I should have looked at the Hebrew earlier. A lesson to us all about Posting in Haste!

My final paragraph still stands, where I said that of course Mary, in the New Testament, does not name her child Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace [or anything like ‘God-plans-a wonder-God-is-wonderful-Mighty-Eternal-a-Peaceable Ruler,” either]. Nobody I can find in the whole New Testament ever addresses Jesus by any such name or any other name that is a long sentence, either.

Consulting the Hebrew takes care of any attempts to apply the verse to Jesus, about eight centuries after Isaiah’s time, even assuming that somebody thinks they can find an example in the New Testament where Jesus’ name is a long sentence about God being eternal and wonderful, peaceably planning miracles - or any other long sentence.