Isaiah 53:3
Good News Translation
We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--we ignored him as if he were nothing.

New Revised Standard Version
He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.

Contemporary English Version
He was hated and rejected; his life was filled with sorrow and terrible suffering. No one wanted to look at him. We despised him and said, "He is a nobody!"

New American Bible
He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, Like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

despised

Isaiah 49:7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Psalm 22:6-8 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. . . .

Psalm 69:10-12,19,20 And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me. . . .

Micah 5:1 Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth.

Zechariah 11:8,12,13 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard. . . .

Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

Matthew 27:39-44,63 And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, . . .

Mark 9:12 Who answering, said to then: Elias, when he shall come first, shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man that he must suffer many things and be despised.

Mark 15:19 And they struck his head with a reed: and they did spit on him. And bowing their knees, they adored him.

Luke 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

Luke 9:22 Saying: The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the ancients and chief priests and scribes and be killed and the third day rise again.

Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Luke 23:18 But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:

John 8:48 The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?

Hebrews 12:2,3 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God. . . .

a man

Isaiah 53:4,10 Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. . . .

Psalm 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.

Matthew 26:37,38 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. . . .

Mark 14:34 And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.

Luke 19:41 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:

John 11:35 And Jesus wept.

Hebrews 2:15-18 And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude. . . .

Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

we hid as it were our faces from him.

Deuteronomy 32:15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

Zechariah 11:13 And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome price, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.

Matthew 27:9,10 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was prized, whom they prized of the children of Israel. . . .

John 1:10,11 He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not. . . .

Acts 3:13-15 The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released. . . .

Context
The Suffering Servant
2And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: 3Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.4Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.…
Cross References
Mark 10:33
Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and ancients. And they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.

Mark 10:34
And they shall mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

Luke 18:31
Then Jesus took unto him the twelve and said to them: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of man.

John 1:10
He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not.

John 1:11
He came unto his own: and his own received him not.

Psalm 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Psalm 22:7
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

Isaiah 49:7
Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

Isaiah 52:14
As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.

Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.

Isaiah 53:2
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