And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:
George Leo Haydock
Plant. Hebrew also, “suckling child.” (Septuagint, &c.) — Ground. The blessed Virgin [Mary]. (Calmet) — Was. Septuagint, “he had no appearance nor beauty. But his appearance was abject and deficient above all men; a,” &c. — That we. Literally, “and we have desired him.” Notwithstanding his abject condition, He was the desired of all nations, and by his wounds we are healed. (Haydock) — Some assert that the person of Christ was not beautiful, while others think that his wounds prevented it from being discerned. Salmeron would supply a negation from the first number: “We have not desired him.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.