Despised and suffering servant: Isaiah 52–53; Lamentations

Isaiah also announces that he will be mocked, tormented, and at last put to death: ‘Behold, my servant shall grow, he shall be exalted and highly glorified. Just as many will have been stunned at you, so despised was your face in human eyes; and many nations will be astonished and kings will shut their mouths; for those to whom nothing was told of him shall see, and those who had not heard shall understand. Lord, who has believed what we have heard, and to whom has the arm of God been revealed? We spoke before him as a child; he was like a shoot in arid ground; and he had neither appearance nor glory; and we saw him, and he had neither form nor beauty. But his exterior was without brilliance and inferior to all other human beings; a man of sorrows and acquainted with suffering, for his face is an object of contempt; he was despised and no account was made of him. It is he who bears our iniquities; it is for us that he is exposed to pains.’ (Isa 52:13–53:4; Isa 53:2-4)

And again Jeremiah: ‘He will give his cheeks to the one who strikes him; he will be filled with reproaches.’ (Lam 3:30) All this Christ has endured. (Mt 26:67; Mt 27:30)