Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 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 (Jeremiah 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 Isaiah 53:1).
esteemed . . . not—negative contempt; the previous words express positive.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 53:3:
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Isaiah 49:4
Isaiah 49:7
Isaiah 52:13
Isaiah 53:1
Luke 4:18-19
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