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The Servant, Israel’s Hope

1 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is athe certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My bcreditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities cyou have sold yourselves,
And for your transgressions your mother has been put away. 
2 Why, when I came, was there no man?
Why, 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?
Indeed with My arebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
And die of thirst. 
3 aI clothe the heavens with blackness,
bAnd I make sackcloth their covering.” 
4 “Thea Lord God has given Me
The tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is bweary.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear
To hear as the learned. 
5 The Lord God ahas opened My ear;
And I was not brebellious,
Nor did I turn away. 
6 aI gave My back to those who struck Me,
And bMy cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;
I did not hide My face from shame and cspitting. 
7 “For the Lord God will help Me;
Therefore I will not be disgraced;
Therefore aI have set My face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed. 
8 aHe is near who justifies Me;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand together.
Who is1 My adversary?
Let him come near Me. 
9 Surely the Lord God will help Me;
Who is he who will condemn Me?
aIndeed they will all grow old like a garment;
bThe moth will eat them up. 
10 “Who among you fears the Lord?
Who obeys the voice of His Servant?
Who awalks in darkness
And has no light?
bLet him trust in the name of the Lord
And rely upon his God. 
11 Look, all you who kindle a fire,
Who encircle yourselves with sparks:
Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—
aThis you shall have from My hand:
You shall lie down bin torment. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 50:2

I—Messiah.

no man—willing to believe in and obey Me (Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 52:3). The same Divine Person had "come" by His prophets in the Old Testament (appealing to them, but in vain, Jeremiah 7:25-26), who was about to come under the New Testament.

hand shortened—the Oriental emblem of weakness, as the long stretched-out hand is of power (Isaiah 59:1). Notwithstanding your sins, I can still "redeem" you from your bondage and dispersion.

dry up . . . sea— (Exodus 14:21). The second exodus shall exceed, while it resembles in wonders, the first (Isaiah 11:11, Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 51:15).

make . . . rivers . . . wilderness—turn the prosperity of Israel's foes into adversity.

fish stinketh—the very judgment inflicted on their Egyptian enemies at the first exodus (Exodus 7:18, Exodus 7:21).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 50:2:

Psalms 104:6-9
Isaiah 50:1
Isaiah 59:1
Nahum 1:4

 

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