17 Your eyes will see the king(A) in his beauty(B)
    and view a land that stretches afar.(C)

Read full chapter

17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Read full chapter

The Land of the Majestic King

17 Your eyes will see the King in His (A)beauty;
They will see the land that is very far off.

Read full chapter

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(A)
    and like a root(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance(C) that we should desire him.

Read full chapter

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Read full chapter

For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no [a]form or [b]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no [c]beauty that we should desire Him.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:2 Stately form
  2. Isaiah 53:2 splendor
  3. Isaiah 53:2 Lit. appearance