Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore.. answer] These clauses emphasise the hopelessness of Israel's case from a human point of view. Only the divine power could effect the deliverance of the exiles.
Wherefore.. answer] These clauses emphasise the hopelessness of Israel's case from a human point of view. Only the divine power could effect the deliverance of the exiles.
Verse Isaiah 50:2. _THEIR FISH STINKETH _- "Their fish is dried up"] For תבאש _tibaosh, stinketh_, read תיבש _tibash, is dried up_; so it stands in the Bodl. MS., and it is confirmed by the _Septuagin...
WHEREFORE, WHEN I CAME, WAS THERE NO MAN? - That is, when I came to call you to repentance, why was there no man of the nation to yield obedience? The sense is, that they had not been punished without...
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...
ISAIAH 49:22 TO ISAIAH 50:3. THE PROMISES TO ZION ELABORATED AND CONFIRMED. At a sign from Yahweh the nations shall with solicitous care bring back the exiles to Zion. Kings and queens shall tend them...
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ WHEN. CAME. Messiah speaks. NO MAN. See John 1:11. Compare Jeremiah 5:1.Acts 13:46; Acts 18:6
Isaiah 50:1. The third oracle meets another doubt which must have occurred to the exiles, viz., that the covenant relation between Jehovah and Israel has been broken beyond possibility of renewal. In...
Jehovah expresses surprise that His message of redemption (delivered through the prophet) has been received with so little enthusiasm by the people. was there _no man?_ The expression occurs again in...
Isaiah 49:14 to Isaiah 50:3. The Consolation of Zion (i) Isaiah 49:14. In an apostrophe to Jerusalem the prophet announces the speedy return of her population and the rebuilding of her waste places....
THUS SAITH THE LORD— In the preceding period of the last chapter, a doubt respecting the great enemy of the church was removed: but another doubt exercised the afflicted church about the same time in...
TEACH, CHAPTER 50 a. OBJECTIONS CANCELLED TEXT: Isaiah 50:1-3 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it t...
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the...
After many years as *exiles, nobody imagined that they would ever see their own country again. It was impossible. So, when the *Lord promised to bring the *exiles home, nobody believed him. • But sev...
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...
WHEREFORE, WHEN I CAME...? — The “coming” of Jehovah must be taken in all its width of meaning. He came in the deliverance from Babylon, in a promise of still greater blessings, in the fullest sense,...
מַדּ֨וּעַ בָּ֜אתִי וְ אֵ֣ין אִ֗ישׁ קָרָ֥אתִי֮...
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...
(d) Why, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand (e) shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry u...
_Hear. My spouse had gone after other lovers. The people refused to hear the prophets; and the priests were become as corrupt as the rest, when the city was taken by the Chaldeans and by the Romans. ...
The Prophet Hosea whose ministry was not many years before that of Isaiah hath made use of the same figure of the married state, to represent the Mediator's union with his people; and here the Prophet...
2._Why did I come? _This might be a reason assigned, that the people have not only brought upon themselves all immense mass of evils by provoking God’s anger, but have likewise, by their obstinacy, cu...
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...
WHEREFORE, WHEN I CAME, WAS THERE NO MAN?.... The Targum is, "why have I sent my prophets, and they are not converted?'' And so Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it of the prophets that prophesied unto...
Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up...
_Wherefore_, &c. The general accusation, delivered in the last words, he now proves by particular instances: _When I came was there no man._ How comes it to pass, that, when I sent to you by my servan...
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man, namely, to listen to the message of His prophets? WHEN I CALLED, WAS THERE NONE TO ANSWER? to assent to the preaching by which He intended to save their souls...
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...
1-3 Those who have professed to be people of God, and seem to be dealt severely with, are apt to complain, as if God had been hard with them. Here is an answer for such murmurings; God never deprived...
The general accusation delivered in the last words he now proveth by particular instances. _When I came; when I_, first by my prophets, and at last by my Son, came unto them, to call them to repentanc...
Isaiah 50:2 came H935 (H8804) man H376 called H7121 (H8804) answer H6030 (H8802) hand H3027 shortened...
IS THERE NO ONE TO ANSWER WHEN YAHWEH HAS THE POWER AND THE WILL TO DELIVER? (ISAIAH 50:1). Yahweh now rebukes His people. He points out that their failure to enjoy His blessings cannot be laid at Hi...
REDEEM (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...
Isaiah 50:2 These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. They place before our thoughts: I. His Divine power and glory. Power is naturally calm....
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...
_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...
_Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement?_ JEHOVAH AND UNFAITHFUL ISRAEL These Israelites went to the only kind of law with which they were familiar, and borrowed from it...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:2 I DRY UP THE SEA. See Exodus 14:21; Exodus 15:8....
SINFUL ISRAEL SELF-RUINED Isaiah 50:1. _Thus saith the Lord, Where is the hill, &c._ Those who have professed to be the people of God, and yet seem to be severely dealt with, are apt to complain of...
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...
2 Chronicles 32:15; Daniel 3:15; Daniel 3:29; Daniel 6:20; Daniel 6:27
Wherefore — The general accusation delivered in the last words he now proves by particular instances. When — When I, first by my prophets, came to call them to repentance. No man — That complied with...