For He, the Servant of Jehovah, shall grow up before Him, the Lord, as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground, a shoot springing up from beneath a dead stump. He hath no form, no attractiveness, nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. In the midst of Israel's spiritual wilderness and desolation, from the well-nigh dead stump of the house and family of David, the Messiah came forth, like a shoot springing up from the roots of a tree-stump. But this remarkable happening had little or no influence on the children of Israel. For He had no attractive form; there was nothing in Him to strike the eye of natural man and to draw him to the Servant of the Lord.

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