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.
Smiters - with scourges and with the open hand (Isaiah 52:14). Mark 14:65; Matt. 28:26; Matthew 26:67, inform us of the fufilment of this prophecy (Luke 18:31-33). To 'pluck the hair' is the highest insult that can be offered an Oriental (2 Samuel 10:4; Lamentations 3:30). "I gave" implies the voluntary nature of His sufferings; His example corresponded to His precept (Matthew 5:39).
I hid not my face from shame and 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; Matthew 27:30).