7Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
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Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
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.
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. …
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-12)In these verses we have, I. The humiliation and exaltation of the Messiah (Isa. 49:7): The Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and Israel’s Holy One , who had always taken care of the Jewish church and wrought out for them those deliverances that were typical of the great salvation, speaks here to him, who was the undertaker of that salvation. And, 1. He takes notice of his humiliation, the instances of…
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