Word for the Week

Word for the Weak

Week beginning: 18th August, 2024 | By Claire Thompson | Leeds

For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isaiah 53:2-3 (ESV)

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