Isaiah 53:3

“He is despised, and rejected of men, &c.] Or, “ceaseth from men”f1048; was not admitted into the company and conversation of men, especially of figure; or ceased from the class of men, in the opinion of others; he was not reckoned among men, was accounted a worm, and no man; or, if a man, yet not in his senses, a madman, nay, one that had a devil: or “deficient of men”; he had none about him of any rank or figure in life, only some few fishermen, and some women, and publicans, and harlots. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, “the last of men”, the most abject and contemptible of mankind; despised, because of the meanness of his birth, and parentage, and education, and of his outward…”

“rejected--"forsaken of men" [GESENIUS]. "Most abject of men." Literally, "He who ceases from men," that is, is no longer regarded as a man [HENGSTENBERG]. (See on Isa 52:14; Isa 49:7). man of sorrows--that is, whose distinguishing characteristic was sorrows. acquainted with--familiar by constant contact with. grief--literally, "disease"; figuratively for all kinds of calamity (Jer 6:14); leprosy especially represented this, being a direct judgment from God. It is remarkable Jesus is not mentioned as having ever suffered under sickness. and we hid . . . faces--rather, as one who causes men to hide their faces from Him (in aversion) [MAURER]. Or, "He was as an hiding of the face before it,"…”

“He is despised - This requires no explanation; and it needs no comment to show that it was fulfilled. The Redeemer was eminently the object of contempt and scorn alike by the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Romans. In his life on earth it was so; in his death it was still so; and since then, his name and person have been extensively the object of contempt. Nothing is a more striking fulfillment of this than the conduct of the Jews at the present day. The very name of Jesus of Nazareth excites contempt; and they join with their fathers who rejected him in heaping on him every term indicative of scorn. Rejected of men - This phrase is full of meaning, and in three words states the whole…”

“We hid - We scorned to look upon him. Isaiah 53:4”

“53:3 a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief (or a man of pains, acquainted with illness): The servant would fully experience the effects of sin and the Fall. • we did not care: Because people would fail to see how such a weak, insignificant person could do anything beneficial for them, they would be unconcerned about his suffering.”

“despised: Isa 49:7, Isa 50:6; Psa 22:6-8, Psa 69:10-12, Psa 69:19, Psa 69:20; Mic 5:1; Zac 11:8, Zac 11:12, Zac 11:13; Mat 26:67, Mat 27:39-44, Mat 27:63; Mar 9:12, Mar 15:19; Luk 8:53, Luk 9:22, Luk 16:14; Luk 23:18-25; Joh 8:48; Heb 12:2, Heb 12:3 a man: Isa 53:4, Isa 53:10; Psa 69:29; Mat 26:37, Mat 26:38; Mar 14:34; Luk 19:41; Joh 11:35; Heb 2:15-18, Heb 4:15, Heb 5:7 we hid as it were our faces from him: or, he hid as it were, his face from us. Heb. as a hiding of faces from him or from us. we esteemed. Deu 32:15; Zac 11:13; Mat 27:9, Mat 27:10; Joh 1:10, Joh 1:11; Act 3:13-15 Isaiah 53:4”

“On the contrary, the impression produced by His appearance was rather repulsive, and, to those who measured the great and noble by a merely worldly standard, contemptible. "He was despised and forsaken by men; a man of griefs, and well acquainted with disease; and like one from whom men hide their face: despised, and we esteemed Him not." All these different features are predicates of the erat that is latent in non species ei neque decor and non adspectus. Nibhzeh is introduced again palindromically at the close in Isaiah's peculiar style; consequently Martini's conjecture לא וגו נבזהוּ is to be rejected. This nibhzeh (cf., bâzōh, Isa 49:7) is the keynote of the description which looks…”