Isaiah 49:7

The despised and rejected Servant will one day be honored, as kings rise and worship because of the faithful God who chose him.

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• 1 Pet 2:4coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
• Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• Matt 26:67Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
• Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
• Ps 72:10–11The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
• Ps 22:6–8But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
• Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
• Isa 49:1Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
• Ps 69:7–9Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
• Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• Isa 52:15so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him: for they will see that which had not been told them; and they will understand that which they had not heard.
• Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
• Isa 42:1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Matt 27:38–44Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
• John 19:15They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
• Isa 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
• Ps 2:10–12Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
• Isa 60:10“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
• Luke 23:23But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
• Luke 23:35The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
• Isa 48:7They are created now, and not from of old; and before today you didn’t hear them; lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
• Isa 60:3Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
• Ps 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
• John 19:6When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
• Isa 60:16You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
• Luke 23:18But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!” —
• Ps 69:19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
• Luke 22:27For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
• John 18:40Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

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