The Lord God hath opened Mine ear, to listen with cheerful willingness, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back, not even when His soul was sorrowful even unto death and His human nature was trembling with the severity of the afflictions which He suffered. Cf Psalms 22:12; 1 Peter 2:22.
Verse Isaiah 50:5. _NEITHER TURNED AWAY BACK _- "Neither did I withdraw myself backward"] Eleven MSS. and the oldest edition prefix the conjunction ו _vau_; and so also the _Septuagint_ and _Syriac_....
THE LORD GOD HATH OPENED MINE EAR - This is another expression denoting that he was attentive to the import of the divine commission (see Psalms 40:6). AND I WAS NOT REBELLIOUS - I willingly undertook...
CHAPTER 50 The Servant Speaks of His Determination and Suffering (Isaiah 50:1 belong to the preceding chapter.) 1. _The cause of Zion's present desolation (Isaiah 50:1)_ 2. The Servant's self-witnes...
THE CONFIDENCE OF THE SERVANT IN YAHWEH (the third Servant Song). Here, as in Isaiah 49:1, the Servant is the speaker. Yahweh has given me the eloquence of a disciple that I may know how to answer the...
NOT REBELLIOUS. not perverse or refractory....
The relation of the Servant to Jehovah is that of a favourite disciple to his master; from Him he had learned the art of persuasive and consoling speech, and to Him he daily looks for the substance of...
Isaiah 50:4-11. The Lord's Servant made perfect through Sufferings In Isaiah 50:4 the Servant is again introduced, speaking of himself and his work, as in Isaiah 49:1-6. He describes in the first pla...
_hath opened mine ear_ The phrase used of the imparting of a prophetic communication in 1 Samuel 9:15 (cf. Psalms 40:6, different verbs). _and I was not rebellious &c._ a circumstantial clause ("I bei...
DISCOURSE: 955 MESSIAH’S SUFFERINGS AND SUPPORT Isaiah 50:5. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them...
THE LORD GOD HATH OPENED MINE EAR— An _open ear_ signifies a mind prompt and ready to receive, understand, and distinguish, the doctrines which are taught it, and to obey the commands which are carrie...
b. OBEDIENT CHRIST TEXT: Isaiah 50:4-9 4 The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morn...
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. THE LORD GOD HATH OPENED MINE EAR (see note, ; ) - i:e., hath made me obediently attentive (but Maurer, 'hath...
1. The children of Zion (Isaiah 49:20) are addressed. Their servitude is not irrevocable; Jehovah has not formally repudiated Zion (Deuteronomy 24:1); nor, though they had to learn by discipline, can...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 50 ISRAEL HAS REFUSED TO TRUST THE *LORD V1 This is what the *Lord says to the people...
The Servant must listen carefully. That is, not only to hear God’s words, but also to understand God’s meaning....
THE LORD GOD. — _Jehovah Adonai,_ as before. The Servant continues his soliloquy. What has come to him in the morning communings with God is, as in the next verse, that he too is to bear reproach and...
אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ פָּתַֽח ־לִ֣י אֹ֔זֶן וְ אָנֹ
CHAPTER XIX PROPHET AND MARTYR Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 50:4 THE second great passage upon the Servant of the Lord is Isaiah 49:1, and the third is...
HELP FOR THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM Isaiah 50:1-11 It is impossible for God to put away the soul that clings to Him in penitence and faith. Heaven and earth may be searched, but no bill of divorce can b...
Proceeding, Jehovah challenges the people to prove their assertion that they have been forsaken by producing the writing in which God has divorced His people, and declares to them that the reason of t...
I should think it an unnecessary service to point out whom this account refers to. Everything here spoken is so directly descriptive of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, that it is hardly possible...
5._The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear. _He again repeats what he had formerly said, and here includes everything that belongs to the office of a teacher; for the “opening of the ear” must be unders...
Chapter 50 enters into the detail of the judgment which God brings upon Israel, and the true cause of their rejection. [1] Nothing can be more touching, more wonderful, than the manner in which the Pe...
THE LORD GOD HATH OPENED MINE EAR,.... To hear most freely, and receive most fully, what is said by him, and to observe and do it: the allusion seems to be to the servant that had his ears bored, bein...
_The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back._ Ver. 5. _The Lord God hath opened mine ear._] Removing all lets, and making the bore bigger, as it were, there...
_The Lord hath opened mine ear_ Hath given me a power and will to hear and receive his commands. _And I was not rebellious_ I readily did and suffered what he required of me. _Neither turned away back...
4-9 As Jesus was God and man in one person, we find him sometimes speaking, or spoken of, as the Lord God; at other times, as man and the servant of Jehovah. He was to declare the truths which comfor...
HATH OPENED MINE EAR; hath revealed unto me; or rather, hath given me a power and will to hear and receive his commands, as this phrase is used, PSALMS 40:6 ISAIAH 35:5, and elsewhere. I WAS NOT REBEL...
Isaiah 50:5 Lord H136 GOD H3069 opened H6605 (H8804) ear H241 rebellious H4784 (H8804) turn H5472 ...
BUT THERE IS ONE WHO WILL ANSWER, THE SERVANT OF YAHWEH (ISAIAH 50:4). But then there is an answer. There is a man who speaks up answers, but it is not quite as expected. Instead of the Spirit-filled...
Isaiah 50:1. _Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away?_ Sometimes, the headings to the Chapter s in our Bible give us the meaning of the passage. The...
This chapter might well have been written by our Lord Jesus Christ himself at the time when he was upon the earth. Isaiah 50:1. _Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, w...
Isaiah 50:1. _Thus saith the LORD,_ There is always something weighty coming when you have this preface. If God speaks, we ought to hear with reverence, with attention. Isaiah 50:1. Where is the bil...
CONTENTS: The humiliation of the Holy One of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The Lord Jesus, our Redeemer, was to be wise above all men, able to speak the word of comfort to every heart;...
Isaiah 50:1. _Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement._ That is, of Jerusalem, gone over to the worship of Baal. God did not divorce the synagogue, till she had first committed adultery, the on...
_The Lord God hath given Me the tongue of the learned_ THE LORD’S SERVANT MADE PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS In Isaiah 50:4 the servant is again introduced, speaking of Himself and His work, as in Isai...
_Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?_ THE MEDIATOR: DIVINE AND HUMAN These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus They place before our tho...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:4 The listening servant will sustain his listening people with a salvation that will last forever. ⇐...
OUR SAVIOUR’S QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT OF HIS WORK Isaiah 50:4. _The Lord hath given me the tongue, &c._ We suppose the prophet Isaiah to say something of himself in these ver...
EXPOSITION This chapter seems to be made up of short fragments, which the collector, or collectors, of Isaiah's writings regarded as too precious to be lost, and which they consequently here threw tog...
Now in chapter 50 another marvelous prophecy of Jesus Christ and of the humiliation that He would receive from His own people. Thus saith the LORD (Isaiah 50:1), Talking to Israel now. Where is the...
Hebrews 10:5; Hebrews 5:8; Isaiah 48:8; John 14:31; John 15:10;...