Isaiah 53:2 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-3

The prophet, in the close of the former chapter, had foreseen and foretold the kind reception which the gospel of Christ should find among the Gentiles, that nations and their kings should bid it welcome, that those who had not seen him should believe in him; and though they had not any prophecies among them of gospel grace, which might raise their expectations, and dispose them to entertain it, yet upon the first notice of it they should give it its due weight and consideration. Now here he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant ,.... Which springs out of the earth without notice; low in its beginning, slow in its growth, liable to be crushed with the foot, or destroyed with the frost, and no great probability of its coming to any perfection; or rather as a little "sucker", as the word F2 כיונק ως παιδιον , Sept.; ως θηλαζον , Theodotion, vox a ינק , "lac sugere, proprie lactantem significat", Rivet. Sanctius, "surculus tener, veluti laetens", Forerius. ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:2

For he shall grow up - Supposes something to have preceded; as it might be asked, what or who shall 'grow up before him,' etc. As the translation now stands, no correct answer can be given to this question. The translation then is wrong, the connection broken, and the sense obscured. זרוע zeroa , translated the arm, from the root zara. To sow, or plant; also seed, etc. The limb which reaches from the shoulder to the hand, called the arm; or more properly beginning at the shoulder... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

The Messianic interpretation of the chapter was universally acknowledged by the Jews until the time of Aben Ezra. It was also assumed as indisputable by the Christian Fathers. Almost all Christian expositors down to the commencement of the nineteenth century took the same view. It was only under the pressure of the Christian controversy that the later Jews abandoned the traditional interpretation, and applied the prophecy In the present century a certain number of Christian commentators... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

For he shall grow up ; rather, now he grew up. The verbs are, all of them, in the past, or completed tense, until Isaiah 53:7 , and are to be regarded as "perfects of prophetic certitude." As Mr. Cheyne remarks, "All has been finished before the foundations of the world in the Divine counsels." Before him; i.e. "before Jehovah"—under the fostering care of Jehovah (comp. Luke 2:40 , Luke 2:52 ). God the Father had his eye ever fixed upon the Son with watchfulness and tenderness and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The depraved eye. "No beauty that we should desire him." In this prophetic picture of the Christ the question arises, "Who hath believed our report?" What wonderful attestation history gives to this!—"He came unto his own, and his own received him not." Whether the words, "he hath no form nor comeliness," apply to the physical features of Christ, we cannot say; for the Jews had no "art." They interpreted the words, "Thou shalt not make to thyself … the likeness of anything that is in heaven... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The attractive and the unattractive in Jesus Christ. The whole passage is exceedingly remarkable in that it ascribes to one man qualities and surroundings which are so opposed to one another that they seem to be positively inconsistent with each other. And the difficulty has been to find a reconciliation. But all perplexity disappears when they are referred to Jesus Christ; for in him were combined features of character and changes of circumstance which could not be united in any other child... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2-11

The sufferings of Jesus. It is the great object of Isaiah, in this chapter, to declare to his countrymen I. THE MESSIAH A SUFFERING MESSIAH . Hitherto Isaiah had looked upon the promised Redeemer on the side of his glories and his triumphs. His names were to be "Immanuel," or "God with us" ( Isaiah 7:14 ), "Wonderful," "Counsellor," "The Mighty God," "The Everlasting Father," "The Prince of Peace" ( Isaiah 9:6 ). "Of the increase of his government and peace there was to be no... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 53:2

For he shall grow up before him - In this verse, the prophet describes the humble appearance of the Messiah, and the fact that there was nothing in his personal aspect that corresponded to the expectations that bad been formed of him; nothing that should lead them to desire him as their expected deliverer, but everything that could induce them to reject him. He would be of so humble an origin, and with so little that was magnificent in his external appear ance, that the nation would despise... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 53:2-3

Isaiah 53:2-3. For he shall grow up, &c. And the reason why the Jews will generally reject their Messiah is, because he shall not come into the world with secular pomp, but he shall grow up, (or, spring up, out of the ground,) before him, (before the unbelieving Jews, of whom he spake, Isaiah 53:1, and that in the singular number, as here, who were witnesses of his mean original; and therefore despised him,) as a tender plant, (small and inconsiderable,) and as a root, or ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2-11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 53:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 53:2-3

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