George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 50:7
Rock. Christ heard the accusations of his enemies unmoved, as the had not been afraid to blame the conduct of the Pharisees.
Rock. Christ heard the accusations of his enemies unmoved, as the had not been afraid to blame the conduct of the Pharisees.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
50:7 flint, (d-22) Or 'hard rock.' see Job 28:9 . 'Flint' in ch. 5.28 is another word....
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 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...
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.)...
וַ אדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ יַֽעֲזָר ־לִ֔י עַל ־כֵּ֖ן
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 50:7 Lord H136 GOD H3069 help H5826 (H8799) disgraced H3637 (H8738) set H7760 (H8804) face...
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 50:7 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...
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) ; “...
_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 50:7 MY FACE LIKE A FLINT. The servant chose his sufferings willingly. He moves forward with determination, confident in God’s overruling help....
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 Peter 4:1; 1 Peter 4:16; Ezekiel 3:8; Ezekiel 3:9; Hebrews 13:6;...