Isaiah 53:1

Isaiah 53:1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

This is a cause for sorrow upon sorrow, - for the prophets to have God’s message to deliver, and yet for men to reject it, - for them to have to tell it, but to tell it in vain. Yet, dear friends, this has been the lot of some of God’s most faithful servants in all ages, and we must not complain if it should be our lot also. I should not have voluntarily chosen to be Jeremiah, the weeping prophet; yet, methinks, no one of God’s servants deserves greater honour than he does, for he continued bravely to deliver his Master’s message even when none believed him, and all rejected his testimony. Isaiah links himself with all the other prophets who had been rejected, and he says, "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?"