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 faithfulness of His eternal love.
CHAPTER L _In this chapter God vindicates his dealings with his people,_ _whose alienation is owing to themselves_, 1. _And, by allusion to the temporal deliverances connected with_ _the drying up...
THUS SAITH THE LORD - To the Jews in Babylon, who were suffering under his hand, and who might be disposed to complain that God had dealt with them with as much caprice and cruelty as a man did with h...
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...
THUS. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "For thus". the LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. WHERE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ THE BILL. this bill. DIVORCEMENT. Found only here, a...
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...
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...
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,...
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...
A husband in Israel could divorce his wife, if she did not remain true to him (see Deuteronomy 24:1-4). This was well-known. The Bible often refers to the *Lord’s relationship to Israel as that of hus...
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...
L. (1) WHERE IS THE BILL...? — The thought seems suggested by Isaiah 49:14, but expands in a different direction. Both questions imply a negative answer. Jehovah had not formally repudiated the wife ...
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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...
Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the (a) bill of your mother's divorcement, (b) whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] (c) to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye s...
Away. Such a one could not be received again, if she had taken another husband, Deuteronomy xxiv. 3. Some explain this of the captives. But God restored them to favour. It seems rather to relate to th...
CONTENTS Notwithstanding certain parts, here and there, in this Chapter, which may, at the first glance, appear to have an historical allusion to Babylon and the captivity: yet the great and evident...
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...
1._Where is that bill of divorcement? _There are various interpretations of this passage, but very few of the commentators have understood the Prophet’s meaning. In order to have a general understandi...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Here begins a new discourse or prophecy, and therefore thus prefaced, and is continued in the following chapter: WHERE IS THE BILL OF YOUR MOTHER'S DIVORCEMENT, WHOM I HAVE P...
Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselv...
_Thus saith the Lord_ God having, by his prophet, in the last three verses of the preceding chapter, comforted his people with an assurance of their deliverance from the tyrannical power of their enem...
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...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 50 The dereliction of the Jews is not of Christ; for he hath power to save, ISAIAH 50:1; and was obedient in that work; and God is present with him, ISAIAH 50:5. An exhortation not to t...
Isaiah 50:1 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 certificate H5612 mothers H517 divorce H3748 away H7971 (H8765) creditors...
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...
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...
_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 50:1 The Jewish exiles feel abandoned (see Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 49:14). But their hardships are not du
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...
1 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 4:1; Deuteronomy 24:1;...
Thus saith the Lord — The scope of this and the next chapter, is to vindicate God's justice and to convince the Jews that they were the causes of their own calamities. Behold — You can blame none but...