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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 53:3 - 53:3
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rejected - “forsaken of men” [Gesenius]. “Most abject of men.” Literally, “He who ceases from men,” that is, is no longer regarded as a man [Hengstenberg]. (See on Isa 52:14; Isa 49:7).
man of sorrows - that is, whose distinguishing characteristic was sorrows.
acquainted with - familiar by constant contact with.
grief - literally, “disease”; figuratively for all kinds of calamity (Jer 6:14); leprosy especially represented this, being a direct judgment from God. It is remarkable Jesus is not mentioned as having ever suffered under sickness.
and we hid ... faces - rather, as one who causes men to hide their faces from Him (in aversion) [Maurer]. Or, “He was as an hiding of the face before it,” that is, as a thing before which a man covers his face in disgust [Hengstenberg]. Or, “as one before whom is the covering of the face”; before whom one covers the face in disgust [Gesenius].
we - the prophet identifying himself with the Jews. See Horsley’s view (see on Isa 53:1).
esteemed ... not - negative contempt; the previous words express positive.