For he shall grow up before him – In this verse, the prophet describes the humble appearance of the Messiah. He highlights the fact that t…

For he shall grow up ... —The Hebrew tenses are in the perfect, the future being contemplated as already accomplished. The words p…

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out…

Yet he shall grow up before him as a twig. This verse refers to what was previously said: that Christ will at first have no magnificence o…

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…

Nowhere in all the Old Testament is it so plainly and fully prophesied that Christ was to suffer, and then to enter into His glory, as in this chap…

1. Who has believed. Here the prophet begins to present the remedies for the aforementioned hindrances.