(A)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.

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I offered my back to those who beat(A) me,
    my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;(B)
I did not hide my face
    from mocking and spitting.(C)

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I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

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(A)I gave My back to those who struck Me,
And (B)My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;
I did not hide My face from shame and (C)spitting.

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23 (A)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
    (B)who have said to you,
    ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and (C)you have made your back like the ground
    and like the street for them to pass over.”

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23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,(A)
    who said to you,
    ‘Fall prostrate(B) that we may walk(C) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
    like a street to be walked on.”(D)

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23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

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23 (A)But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
Who have said to [a]you,
‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’
And you have laid your body like the ground,
And as the street, for those who walk over.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:23 Lit. your soul