Isaiah 53:3 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

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ASV

He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

On the Incarnation of the Word 34:1-2 (373)

Nor is even his death passed over in silence: on the contrary, it is referred to in the divine Scriptures, even exceedingly clearly.… He suffers it not for his own sake but for the immortality and salvation of all, and the counsels of the Jews against him and the indignities offered him at their hands.… O marvel at the loving-kindness of the Word, that for our sakes he is dishonored, that we may be brought to honor.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

He is despised - This requires no explanation; and it needs no comment to show that it was fulfilled. The Redeemer was eminently the object of contempt and scorn alike by the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Romans. In his life on earth it was so; in his death it was still so; and since then, his name and person have been extensively the object of contempt. Nothing is a more striking fulfillment of this than the conduct of the Jews at the present day.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3530: “A Sad Confession” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1916)

You will find in the margin of some of your Bibles that this passage is rendered, "He hid, as it were, His face from us." The literal translation of the Hebrew would be, "He was as a hiding of faces from him," or, "from us." Some critical readers think these words were intended to describe our Lord as having so humbled Himself and brought Himself to such a deep degradation, that He was comparable to the leper who covered his face and cried, "Unclean, unclean!" hiding himself from the gaze of men.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
נִבְזֶה֙	niv.Zeh	[he was] despised	H959 →
וַחֲדַ֣ל	va.cha.Dal	and rejected of	H2310 →
אִישִׁ֔ים	'i.Shim	people	H376 →
אִ֥ישׁ	'ish	a man of	H376 →
מַכְאֹב֖וֹת	makh.'o.Vot	pains	H4341 →
וִיד֣וּעַ	vi.Du.a'	and a [man] acquainted of	H3045 →
חֹ֑לִי	Cho.li	sickness	H2483 →
וּכְמַסְתֵּ֤ר	u.khe.mas.Ter	and like a hiding of	H4564 →
פָּנִים֙	pa.Nim	face	H6440 →
מִמֶּ֔נּוּ	mi.Me.nu	from him	H4480 →
נִבְזֶ֖ה	niv.Zeh	[he was] despised	H959 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
חֲשַׁבְנֻֽהוּ׃	cha.shav.Nu.hu	we valued him	H2803 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days,…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
  God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Galatians 3:13
  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- Zechariah 13:7
  Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against…
- Ephesians 1:5
  He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Through
Isaiah 49:7
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes…
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:4
  As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
- Matthew 26:67
  Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
- Isaiah 48:17
  Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah