“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.”
The rejection—'He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account'—describes the servant's social isolation and rejection. The accumulation of deprecating terms (despised, rejected, suffering, infirm) emphasizes complete degradation. The image of others hiding their faces suggests revulsion and shame. This verse captures the social death accompanying the servant's physical suffering.
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