Isaiah 50:6
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New International Version (©2011)
I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I offered my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not hide my face from mockery and spitting.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I gave My back to those who beat Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spitting.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I gave my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not turn away my face from insults and spitting.

NET Bible (©2006)
I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will offer my back to those who whip me and my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked out the beard: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

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

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.

Young's Literal Translation
My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I gave my back to the smiters,.... To Pontius Pilate, and those he ordered to scourge him, Matthew 27:26.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I gave my back to the smiters - I submitted willingly to be scourged, or whipped. This is one of the parts of this chapter which can be applied to no other one but the Messiah. There is not the slightest evidence, whatever may be supposed to have been the probability, that Isaiah was subjected to any such trial as this, or that he was scourged in a public manner. Yet it was literally fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 27:26; compare Luke 18:33).

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

And my cheeks to them that plunked off the hair - The greatest indignity that could possibly be offered. See the note on Isaiah 7:20 (note).

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Geneva Study Bible

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

(k) I did not shrink from God for any persecution or calamity. By which he shows that the true ministers of God can look for no other recompense of the wicked, but after this sort, and also that is their comfort.

Wesley's Notes

50:6 I gave - I patiently yielded up myself to those who smote me.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. smiters-with scourges and with the open hand (Isa 52:14; Mr 14:65). Literally fulfilled (Mt 27:26; 26:27; Lu 18:33). To "pluck the hair" is the highest insult that can be offered an Oriental (2Sa 10:4; La 3:30). "I gave" implies the voluntary nature of His sufferings; His example corresponds to His precept (Mt 5:39).

spitting-To spit in another's presence is an insult in the East, much more on one; most of all in the face (Job 30:10; Mt 27:30; Lu 18:32).

Isaiah 50:6 Parallel Commentaries
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The Servant's Obedience
4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned. 5The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6I 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. …

Matthew 26:67 Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him
Matthew 27:30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.
Mark 14:65 Then some began to spit at him; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy!" And the guards took him and beat him.
Mark 15:19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
Luke 22:63 The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him.
Numbers 12:14 The LORD replied to Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back."
Job 16:10 People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
Job 30:10 They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Psalm 69:7 For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.
Lamentations 3:30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.