1 quotation linked to King James Bible — Isaiah 53:3 associated with Isaiah, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
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“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.”
The passage links rejection with sustained familiarity with sorrow, portraying grief as something known through lived suffering rather than observed from a distance.
Source note: Isaiah 53:3, King James Version; the line belongs to the suffering-servant passage and combines social rejection with sorrow and grief.