14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
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I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. …
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. …
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-15)Here, as in other places, for the confirming of the faith of God’s people and the encouraging of their hope in the promises of temporal deliverances, the prophet passes from them to speak of the great salvation which should in the fulness of time be wrought out by the Messiah. As the prophecy of Christ’s i 2071 ncarnation was intended for the ratification of the promise of their deliverance from t…
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