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Isaiah 50:8
The language of a court of law shows the Servant’s attitude. He has complete confidence in the *Lord’s judgement.
The language of a court of law shows the Servant’s attitude. He has complete confidence in the *Lord’s judgement.
Verse Isaiah 50:8. _WHO WILL CONTEND WITH ME_] The Bodleian MS. and another add the word הוא _hu_; מי הוא יריב mi hu yarib, as in the like phrase in the next verse; and in the very same phrase Job 13...
HE IS NEAR THAT JUSTIFIETH ME - That is, God, who will vindicate my character, and who approves what I do, does not leave nor forsake me, and I can with confidence commit myself and my cause to him (s...
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...
WHO. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. WHO IS MINE ADVERSARY?. who can convict Me? Literally who owneth My sentence?...
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...
He is _near that justifieth me_ Cf. ch. Isaiah 49:4 ("my judgement is with Jehovah"); Isaiah 51:5. To "justify" is, as nearly always, to declare in the right; so "condemn" in Isaiah 50:9 is to pronoun...
The consciousness of innocence is expressed (as often in the Book of Job) under the conception of a legal process....
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...
WHO IS MINE ADVERSARY?— _Who will hold suit against me?_...
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...
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. HE IS NEAR THAT JUSTIFIETH ME - (Isaiah 49:4) The believer, by virtue...
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...
HE IS NEAR THAT JUSTIFIETH — _i.e.,_ declares innocent and righteous. Appealing from the unrighteous judges of the earth, the Servant commits himself to Him who judges righteously (Luke 23:46). With t...
קָרֹוב֙ מַצְדִּיקִ֔י מִֽי ־יָרִ֥יב אִתִּ֖י נַ֣עַמְדָה...
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...
8._He is near that justifieth me. _We ought always to keep in remembrance that the Prophet mentions nothing that is peculiar to himself, but testifies what the Lord chooses to be, and will always be,...
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...
HE IS NEAR THAT JUSTIFIETH ME,.... His Father was "near" him in his whole state of humiliation; he left him not alone; he was at his right hand, and therefore he was not moved; and "justified" him fro...
Isaiah 50:8 [He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me. Ver. 8. _He is near that justifieth me,_] _i.e., _ God...
_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...
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...
He is near that justifieth Me, His innocence being established in the last great Judgment; WHO WILL CONTEND WITH ME? The guilt of all mankind was indeed imputed to Him, but in His own person He was ev...
MINE ADVERSARY?: _ Heb._ the master of my cause...
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...
HE IS NEAR; God, though he seem to be at a distance, and to hide his face from me, yet he is in truth at my right hand, and ready to help me. THAT JUSTIFIETH ME; that will publicly acquit me from all...
Isaiah 50:8 near H7138 justifies H6663 (H8688) contend H7378 (H8799) stand H5975 (H8799) together H3162 adversary...
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,_ 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...
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, 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...
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...
_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) ; “...
_He is near that justifieth Me_ JEHOVAH THE JUSTIFIER The consciousness of innocence is expressed (as often in the Book of Job) under the conception of a legal process. (_Prof. J. Skinner, D. D._)...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:4 The listening servant will sustain his listening people with a salvation that will last forever. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:8 As Isaiah 53:4 will make clear, the servant did not suffer because he was GUILTY but because others were guilty....
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...
1 Timothy 3:16; Deuteronomy 19:17; Exodus 22:9; Isaiah 41:1; Isaia
Justifieth — God will clear up my righteousness, and shew by many and mighty signs and wonders, that I lived and died his faithful servant. Let him come — l am conscious of mine own innocency, and I k...