ישעיהו 53:3
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.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The Servant is described as 'despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief' — one from whom people hid their faces. The specificity of social rejection and grief-acquaintance gives the passage its extraordinary resonance for those experiencing suffering and marginalization. Patristic and medieval exegetes uniformly read the verse as a portrait of Christ's passion, and the phrase 'man of sorrows' became one of the most recognizable christological titles in Western art, literature, and hymnody. Critically, the verse insists this despised figure is also the one who 'bore our griefs,' linking his suffering inseparably to redemptive purpose.
תרגומים נוספים
He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
הפניות צולבות
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then …
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but …
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom …
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not …