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See also Isaiah 50:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 50:7. _THEREFORE HAVE I SET MY FACE LIKE A FLINT_] The Prophet Ezekiel, Ezekiel 2:8, has expressed this with great force in his bold and vehement manner: "Behold, I have made thy face st...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME - That is, he will sustain me amidst all these expressions of contempt and scorn. SHALL I NOT BE CONFOUNDED - Hebrew, ‘I shall not be ashamed;’ that is, I will bear all...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SET MY FACE LIKE. FLINT. Note the fulfilment. His death was not an event which happened. He "accomplished" it Himself (Luke 9:31), and, after saying this, "He steadfastly set His face", as above, "lik...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse is better rendered thus: BUT THE LORD JEHOVAH HELPS ME, THEREFORE I WAS NOT ASHAMED (i.e. felt no shame); THEREFORE I MADE MY FACE LIKE FLINT (figure for determination, cf. Ezekiel 3:9), AND...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. FOR THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME; THEREFORE SHAL...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    50:7 flint, (d-22) Or 'hard rock.' see Job 28:9 . 'Flint' in ch. 5.28 is another word....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The Servant concentrates his mind on the *Lord. That action gives the Servant the determination that he needs to carry on the *Lord’s work. That determination is the meaning of the word picture about...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME. — That one stay gives to the suffering Servant an indomitable strength. (Comp for the phrase Jeremiah 1:18; Ezekiel 3:9.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ יַֽעֲזָר ־לִ֔י עַל ־כֵּ֖ן

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Rock. Christ heard the accusations of his enemies unmoved, as the had not been afraid to blame the conduct of the Pharisees._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._For the Lord Jehovah will help me. _The Prophet declares whence comes so great courage, which he and the other servants of God need to possess, in order to withstand courageously the attacks of eve...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME,.... As he promised he would, and did, Psalms 89:21, which is no contradiction to the deity of Christ, nor any suggestion of weakness in him; for he is the true God, and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. Ver. 7. _For the Lord God will help me._] And ag...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For_, or rather, _but, the Lord God will help me_ Though as man I am weak, yet God will strengthen me to go through my great and hard work. _Therefore shall I not be confounded_ Therefore I assure my...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the Lord God, the all-powerful Jehovah, the God of the covenant, to whom He has appealed time and again, WILL HELP ME, THEREFORE SHALL I NOT BE CONFOUNDED, the assistance given to His soul by the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DEFECTION OF ISRAEL ATONED FOR BY THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH. The opening of this chapter continues the picture of the Lord and His Church, represented by Zion, His bride, whom He seeks with the fait...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FOR; or rather, _But_, as this particle is oft rendered. For God's favour is here opposed to the injuries of men. THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME; though as a man I am weak and inconsiderable, yet God will...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 50:7 Lord H136 GOD H3069 help H5826 (H8799) disgraced H3637 (H8738) set H7760 (H8804) face...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 50:7 The happiest of gifts for a man to be born with into the world is strength of will; not that a man can by it avoid suffering and sin; but for this that suffering especially raises and heig...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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;...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _For the Lord God will help Me_ MESSIAH NEITHER ASHAMED NOR PUT TO SHAME The verse is better rendered thus: “But the Lord Jehovah helps Me, therefore I was not ashamed” (_i e._ , felt no shame) ; “...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:4 The listening servant will sustain his listening people with a salvation that will last forever. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:7 MY FACE LIKE A FLINT. The servant chose his sufferings willingly. He moves forward with determination, confident in God’s overruling help....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

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