Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.”
- Date
- 1611
- English wording
- King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
Meaning of “He is despised and rejected of men; a…”
The passage links rejection with sustained familiarity with sorrow, portraying grief as something known through lived suffering rather than observed from a distance.
Where does it come from?
Isaiah 53:3, King James Version; the line belongs to the suffering-servant passage and combines social rejection with sorrow and grief.
