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Isaiah 53:2 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. "
Isaiah 53:2
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD’s arm been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
4 Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
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Isaiah 53:1
"Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD’s arm been revealed?"
Isaiah 53:3
"He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him."
Isaiah 53:4
"Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted."
Isaiah 53:5
"But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed."
Isaiah 53:6
"All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
Isaiah 53:7
"He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth."
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