And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no1 form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no1 beauty that we should desire Him.
A Man of1 sorrows and bacquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and cwe did not esteem Him.
And carried our1 sorrows;
Yet we1 esteemed Him stricken,
1Smitten by God, and afflicted.
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His bstripes we are healed.
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord1 has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Yet aHe opened not His mouth;
bHe was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
And who will declare His generation?
For bHe was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any bdeceit in His mouth.
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul aan offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
By His knowledge aMy righteous bServant shall cjustify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
bAnd He shall divide the1 spoil with the strong,
Because He cpoured out His soul unto death,
And He was dnumbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And emade intercession for the transgressors.
| << Isaiah 53:1 | Isaiah 53:3 >> |
Isaiah 53:2
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) before him, (before the unbelieving Jews, of whom he spake Isaiah 53:1, and that in the singular number, as here, who were witnesses of his mean original; and therefore despised him) as a tender plant (small and inconsiderable) and as a root, or branch, grows out of a dry, barren ground. No form - His bodily presence shall be mean and contemptible. No beauty - This the prophet speaks in the person of the unbelieving Jews. We - Our people, the Jewish nation.
Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Isaiah 53:2:
| << Isaiah 53:1 | Isaiah 53:3 >> |
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