Him: i.e. Jehovah.
tender plant. a sapling.
a root. a root-sprout.
dry ground. The "root" (David) of which He was the offspring was well nigh extinct.
we: i.e. the people who saw Him. The interpretation is for the Jews of our Lord's day. The application is for us. The nation will yet say it in their confession and weeping.
Verse Isaiah 53:2. Isaiah 53:1, Isaiah 53:1....
FOR HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM - In this verse, the prophet describes the humble appearance of the Messiah, and the fact that there was nothing in his personal aspect that corresponded to the expecta...
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...
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...
The verse seems to take us back to the origin of the Servant's career, in order to account for the powerful prejudices with which his contemporaries regarded him. From the first he had been mean and u...
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...
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. FOR H...
1-3. The tenses are past (prophetic perfect), the future being viewed as already accomplished....
The people here speak. There was nothing in the servant's appearance to attract them. SHALL GROW] RV 'grew.' BEFORE HIM] i.e. before God. TENDER PLANT, etc.] not like a stately tree, but like a lowly...
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...
God chooses how he will work. And often, he works in a manner that people do not expect. His Servant was someone who was not impressive. People did not even realise that God had appointed the Servant...
FOR HE SHALL GROW UP... — The Hebrew tenses are in the perfect, the future being contemplated as already accomplished. The words present at once a parallel and a contrast to those of Isaiah 11:1. Ther...
וַ יַּ֨עַל כַּ † יֹּונֵ֜ק לְ פָנָ֗יו...
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...
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a (c) root out of a dry (d) ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him....
Plant. Hebrew also, "suckling child." (Septuagint, &c.) --- Ground. The blessed Virgin [Mary]. (Calmet) --- Was. Septuagint, "he had no appearance nor beauty. But his appearance was abject and deficie...
2._Yet he shall grow up before him as a twig. _This verse refers to what was formerly said, that Christ will at first have no magnificence or outward display among men; but that before God he will nev...
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...
FOR HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM AS A TENDER PLANT,.... Which springs out of the earth without notice; low in its beginning, slow in its growth, liable to be crushed with the foot, or destroyed with th...
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. Ver. 2...
Isa. 53:1, 2: "To whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant," etc. That _HE_ that the prophet speaks of, as it is most natural to understand, is th...
Isa. 53:2. This verse has respect to Christ's appearance in mean and low circumstances, without outward pomp and splendor. Great outward glory is in Scripture often compared to a tree growing high and...
_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...
For He, the Servant of Jehovah, SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM, the Lord, AS A TENDER PLANT AND AS A ROOT OUT OF A DRY GROUND, a shoot springing up from beneath a dead stump. HE HATH NO FORM, no attractiven...
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...
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...
FOR HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM AS A TENDER PLANT, AND AS A ROOT OUT OF A DRY GROUND; and the reason or occasion why the Jews will so generally reject their Messiah, is because he shall not come into...
Isaiah 53:2 up H5927 (H8799) before H6440 plant H3126 root H8328 dry H6723 ground H776 form H8389 comeliness...
‘For he grew up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of out of a dry ground, He has no form nor comeliness, And when we see him there is no beauty that we should desire him.' In His grow...
Isaiah 53:2 "Religion is a weariness." Such is the judgment commonly passed, often avowed, concerning the greatest of blessings which Almighty God has bestowed upon us. And when God gave the blessing,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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? 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...
_For He shall grow up before wire as a tender plant_ GOD ACCOMPLISHES GREAT THINGS BY UNLIKELY MEANS 1. God prosecuteth and accomplisheth His greatest designs by the most unlikely and despised mean...
_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...
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...
1 Peter 2:14; Ezekiel 17:22; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 52:14; Jeremiah 23:5
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...
As a root — 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, out of the ground) bef...