George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 53:3
Not. The whole life of Christ was spent in the midst of poverty, and contradictions, Hebrews iv. 15. He has thus taught us to despise ourselves.
Not. The whole life of Christ was spent in the midst of poverty, and contradictions, Hebrews iv. 15. He has thus taught us to despise ourselves.
Verse Isaiah 53:3. _ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF_] For וידוע _vidua, familiar with_ _grief_, eight MSS. and one edition have וירע _veyada_, and _knowing_ _grief_; the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Vulgate_ read...
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,...
CHAPTER 53 The Sinbearer and His Victory 1. _The marred visage and His exaltation (Isaiah 52:13) _ 2. _His life and His rejection by the nation (Isaiah 53:1) _ 3. The work of the Sinbearer: smitten,...
ISAIAH 52:13- ISAIAH 53:12. THE VINDICATION OF THE SERVANT OF YAHWEH (the fourth of the Songs of the Servant of Yahweh). ISAIAH 52:13. Yahweh announces that His Servant Israel shall be raised to a po...
DESPISED AND REJECTED. Fulfilled in John 1:10; John 1:11; John 8:48; John 10:20. MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'ish._ App-14. = the chief men. Compare...
Isaiah 53:1-9. Having thus indicated the subject of his discourse, the prophet now proceeds to describe the career of the Servant, and the impression he had made on his contemporaries. This is preface...
Isaiah 52:13 to Isaiah 53:12. The Servant's Sacrifice and His Reward This is the last and greatest, as well as the most difficult, of the four delineations of the Servant of Jehovah, and in several r...
Not only did the Servant fail to attract his contemporaries (Isaiah 53:2); there was that in his appearance which excited positive aversion. He is represented as one stricken with loathsome and disfig...
DISCOURSE: 967 THE CHARACTERS AND TREATMENT OF THE MESSIAH Isaiah 53:2. 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...
FOR HE SHALL GROW UP, &C.— _But he groweth up before him, as a tender shoot, and as a branch out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness, that we should gaze upon him, and no beauty,_ &c. "Wou...
5. ATONE, CHAPTER 53 a. SHUNNED TEXT: Isaiah 53:1-3 1 Who had believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root...
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. HE IS ... REJECTED OF MEN - `for...
53:3 alone (c-6) Or 'held aloof.' grief, (d-16) Or 'suffering.' The word also means, 'sickness,' 'infirmity.'...
SORROWS.. GRIEF] lit. 'pains.. sickness.' HE WAS DESPISED, etc.] literally fulfilled in the attitude of His contemporaries generally towards our Lord: cp. John 1:10; John 8:48; John 9:24;...
1-3. The tenses are past (prophetic perfect), the future being viewed as already accomplished....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 53 THE SERVANT WAS HIMSELF NOT NOTICEABLE V1 Nobody would believe what we have just he...
HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED. — Better, for the last word, _forsaken._ This had been the crowning sorrow of the righteous sufferer of the Old Testament (Job 17:15; Job 19:14). It was to complete the tr...
נִבְזֶה֙ וַ חֲדַ֣ל אִישִׁ֔ים אִ֥ישׁ מַכְאֹבֹ֖ות...
CHAPTER XX THE SUFFERING SERVANT Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53:1 WE are now arrived at the last of the passages on the Servant of the Lord. It is known to Christendom as the Fifty-third of Isaiah, but it...
THE REJECTED AND SUFFERING REDEEMER Isaiah 53:1-12 The common lot of man may be summed up in three words: suffering, sin, and death. Our Lord, the Divine Servant, presents a notable exception to the...
We begin our reading here because the last three verses of chapter 52 so evidently belong to chapter 53. In this section the prophet describes the completion and issue of the suffering of the Servant...
He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with (e) grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (e) Which was by God's singu...
_THE MAN OF SORROWS_ ‘A Man of sorrows.’ Isaiah 53:3 I. HIS OWN PERSONAL LIFE WAS A SORROWFUL ONE.—He was away from home, from His Father’s presence. He was a Stranger in a strange land. From His c...
3._Despised and rejected. _This verse conveys the same statement as the preceding, namely, that Christ will be “rejected” by men, in consequence of their beholding in him nothing but grief and infirmi...
Chapter 53. Israel's unbelief is declared. The structure of this most interesting chapter is as follows. As we have seen, in the Psalms and elsewhere, the full repentance of Israel comes after their d...
HE IS DESPISED, AND REJECTED OF MEN,.... Or, "ceaseth from men" f; was not admitted into the company and conversation of men, especially of figure; or ceased from the class of men, in the opinion of o...
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. Ver. 3. _He is despised and reje...
_For he shall grow up_, &c. And the reason why the Jews will generally reject their Messiah is, because he shall not come into the world with secular pomp, but _he shall grow up_, (or, _spring up_, ou...
He is despised and rejected of men, forsaken by them all, A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF, fully acquainted with sicknesses and the misery of this earthly life; AND WE HID, AS IT WERE, OUR...
V. 1. WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT? Who puts faith in that which he hears from us, the messengers of the Lord? AND TO WHOM IS THE ARM OF THE LORD REVEALED? The evangelist of the Old Testament, in an i...
he hid as it were our faces from him: Or, he hid as it were his face from us. _Heb._ as a hiding of faces from him or from us...
1-3 No where in all the Old Testament is it so plainly and fully prophesied, that Christ ought to suffer, and then to enter into his glory, as in this chapter. But to this day few discern, or will ac...
HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN; accounted as the scum of mankind, as one unworthy of the company and conversation of all men. A MAN OF SORROWS; whose whole life was filled with, and in a manner ma...
Isaiah 53:3 despised H959 (H8737) rejected H2310 men H376 Man H376 sorrows H4341 acquainted H3045 (H8803) grief...
‘He was despised and rejected by men, A man of sorrows, and humiliated by grief, And as one from whom men hide their face, He was despised and we esteemed him not.' He will not only be unattractive...
Isaiah 53:3 This was one of the marks by which Israel was to know his Christ. He was to be a Man of sorrows. The power by which He was to draw men to Himself, the charm by which He was to keep men ne...
Isaiah 53:3 I. Consider first the humiliation of our blessed Lord. Not only did He suffer extreme pain in body, but also in mind. The divinity of our Lord does not mitigate the intensity of His suffer...
Mr. Moody was once asked whether his creed was in print. In his own prompt way, he replied, «Yes, sir; you will find it in the fifty-third of Isaiah.» A condensed Bible is in this chapter. You have th...
This is a chapter which you have read hundreds of times, perhaps, I am sure it is one that needs no comment from me. I shall read it through with scarcely a sentence of comment. Isaiah 53:1. Who hath...
We will read, this evening, the fifty-third chapter of «the Gospel according to Isaiah,» as we may very properly call it. Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report?_ All the prophets reported that...
This is one of the Chapter s that lie at the very heart of the Scriptures. It is the very Holy of holies of Divine Writ. Let us, therefore, put off our shoes from our feet, for the place whereon we st...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?_ It is sometimes the lot of God's most faithful servants to labour unsuccessfully. As old Thomas Fuller quaint...
Blessed passage; I hope you all know it by heart; it should be like the alphabet to every child. See how it begins. Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD reve...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?_ The prophet seems to speak in the name of all the prophets, lamenting the general unbelief concerning Jesus C...
Isaiah 53:1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 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 comeli...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed!_ It is no new thing for gospel ministers to be disappointed. Even Isaiah; the most Evangelical of all the prop...
CONTENTS: The vicarious sacrifice of Christ, the servant of Jehovah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The whole race of mankind lies under the stain of original corruption, all gone astray from G...
Isaiah 53:1. _Who hath believed our report; and to whom is_ (the Messiah) _the_ mighty _arm of the Lord revealed?_ This complaint of the servants is but the plaintive echo of their Master's voice. He...
_He is despised and rejected of men_ THE MEAN APPEARANCE OF THE REDEEMER FORETOLD I. THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD IN DETERMINING TO SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD IN A STATE OF POVERTY AND AFFLICTION...
_Who hath believed our report?_ THE MESSIAH REFERRED TO IN Isaiah 53:1 By some it has been supposed, in ancient times and in modern, that the prophet was referring to the sufferings of the nation of...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 53:3 A MAN OF SORROWS, AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF. “Acquainted with” could also be translated “knowing.” ⇐...
THE DESPISED AND REJECTED SAVIOUR Isaiah 53:3. _He is despised and rejected of men, &c._ This is a summary of the history of our Lord, as it is recorded by the four Evangelists. His very first hours...
THE GREAT MESSIANIC PROPHECY Isaiah 53:2. _For He shall grow up before Him, &c._ Among the prophecies of Isaiah, that which is contained in the chapter before us stands eminent and illustrious. Recei...
EXPOSITION THE PASSIONAL, OR THE GREAT PROPHECY OF THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST, AND OF HIS LATER EXALTATION. Polycarp the Lysian calls this chapter "the golden passional of the Old Testament evangelist....
By Chuck Smith When men made chapter and verse divisions, they did make mistakes. The Word of God is divinely inspired; it's inerrant. But men, for the sake of helping us to find scriptures and to mem...
Acts 3:13; Deuteronomy 32:15; Hebrews 12:2; Hebrews 12:3; Hebrews
THE SUBSTITUTION OF THE SAVIOUR _A Study of Isaiah 53:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is called the Great Calvary Chapter. The chapter, however, goes back of Calvary describi...
We hid — We scorned to look upon him....
Was Jesus despised by men or respected by them? PROBLEM: According to Isaiah, Jesus was “despised and rejected by men.” Yet in the Gospels, even Jesus’ enemies seemed to respect Him, saying as Pilate...