Blind to the Beauty of Jehovah's Servant

Instead of wonder, love and amazement being directed towards Jehovah's Servant He is treated with gross indifference. So much so that the prophet cries out, maybe with a note of despair and certainly with a note of jealously for God's honour: Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Will anyone believe this message and trust in Jehovah's servant?

The next verse, v2, proceeds to develop why this is so.

The first reason given is the lowly origins of Jehovah's Servant. When He will appear in the world He: shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground, v2a. He was called the Nazarene, a root coming out of dry ground or family whose greatness has diminished.

There is a second reason. The second half of v2 gives a further reason. The human heart is blinded to the beauty that there is in this Servant of Jehovah.

Consider this blindness to the beauty of Jehovah's Servant