DAILY READINGS: Judges 10:6 to 11:28; Isaiah 31; 1 Cor. 9:24 to 10:13
Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we
did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:4
Note that “sorrows” is plural. In Hebrew the plural might have meant just that, a plurality, more than two, which was dual. But sometimes the plural was used to denote intensity, greatness, magnitude, and O the intensity of our Lord’s sorrows! He knew the deep sorrows of loneliness, of misunderstanding, of bereavement, of unbelief, of rejection, and then the final, ultimate sorrow and pain of crucifixion. Whether plurality or magnitude is intended, He was in deed a Man of sorrows. —Jim Flanigan
A Man of sorrows, of toil and tears,
An outcast Man and lonely;
But He looked on me and through endless years,
Him must I love—Him only. —Frances Bevan