Isaiah 53:1

'Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

In Context

2For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him.

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?

Isaiah 59:16And He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 53:1

The two great things which the Spirit of Christ in the Old-Testament prophets testified beforehand were the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow, 1 Pet. i. 11 . And that which Christ himself, when he expounded Moses and all the prophets, showed to be the drift and scope of them all was that Christ ought to suffer and then to enter into his glory, Luke xxiv. 26, 27 . But nowhere in all the Old-Testament are these two so plainly and fully prophesied of as here in this chapter, out of which divers… Read the whole commentary →

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