Isaiah 53:3
Despised was he, and forsaken of men, Man of pains and familiar with sickness,—Yea, like one from whom the face is hidden, Despised, and we esteemed him not.
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Psalms 22:6But, I, am a worm and no one, a reproach of men, and despised of a people;
Psalms 69:10When I have humbled my soul with fasting, Then hath it turned to my reproach;
Psalms 69:29I, then, am humbled and in pain, Thy salvation, O God, may it set me on high.
Isaiah 49:7Thus, saith Yahweh—the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One To him that is despised of the soul, To the abhorred of the nation To the servant of rulers, Kings, shall see and arise, Princes, lo! they have bowed themselves down,—Because of Yahweh, who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel, lo! he hath chosen thee.
Isaiah 53:4Yet surely, our sicknesses, he, carried, And, as for our pains, he bare the burden of them,—But, we, accounted him stricken. Smitten of God and humbled,
Micah 5:1Meanwhile, shalt thou gather together in troops, thou daughter of a troop, siege, hath he laid against us,—with a sceptre, will they smite on the cheek, the judge of Israel!
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 53:2-4
The Humiliation of the Messiah. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. The prophet, in the close of the… Read the whole commentary →