1. Isaiah 50:6 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What were disgrace and spitting intended to accomplish?

Isaiah 50:6 (ESV)

6 I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.

These too are mocking gestures, meant to humiliate. Disgrace was probably verbal insults and taunts. Spitting in the face was a most degrading of gestures (see Deuteronomy 25:9; Job 30:10).

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