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Isaiah 53:3

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53:3He was despised and rejected by people,10

one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness;

people hid their faces from him;11

he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.12

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Isaiah 53:3: He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

Footnotes

  1. 10 Heb “lacking of men.” If the genitive is taken as specifying (“lacking with respect to men”), then the idea is that he lacked company because he was rejected by people. Another option is to take the genitive as indicating genus or larger class (i.e., “one lacking among men”). In this case one could translate, “he was a transient” (cf. the use of חָדֵל [khadel] in Ps 39:5 [39:4 ]).
  2. 11 Heb “like a hiding of the face from him,” i.e., “like one before whom the face is hidden” (see 712 מַסְתֵּר).
  3. 12 The servant is likened to a seriously ill person who is shunned by others because of his horrible disease.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

and as one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He was despised and rejected by mankind,

a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.

Like one from whom people hide their faces

he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.

He was like someone people turned away from;

he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

NLTNew Living Translation

He was despised and rejected—

a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.

We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.

He was despised, and we did not care.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness,

and like one from whom others hide their faces, he was despised,

and we did not hold him in high regard.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.