All ye — You that reject the light which God hath set up, and seek for comfort and safety, by your own inventions. Walk — Use your utmost endeavours to get comfort from these devices. This — This shall be the fruit of all, you shall receive nothing but vexation and misery.
Verse Isaiah 50:11. _YE THAT KINDLE A FIRE_] The fire of their own kindling, by the light of which they walk with security and satisfaction, is an image designed to express, in general, human devices...
BEHOLD, ALL YE THAT KINDLE A FIRE - This verse refers to the wicked. In the previous verse, the Messiah had called upon all the pious to put their trust in God, and it is there implied that they would...
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 50:10 F. A LATE APPENDIX. The song (Isaiah 50:4) is applied to the conditions of a later time when the pious Jews were oppressed by their fellow-countrymen. Let the pious Jew hear (LXX) the Ser...
THAT KINDLE. FIRE. that are incendiaries; not the ordinary word for lighting. fire. Only in Deuteronomy 32:2 (the first occurrence). Jeremiah 15:14; Jeremiah 17:4;...
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...
A double message of encouragement and warning based on the preceding soliloquy of the Servant. It seems evident that the Servant here is regarded as the nucleus of the godly party who are addressed in...
_that compass_yourselves _about with sparks_ Lit. as R.V., THAT GIRD YOURSELVES ABOUT WITH FIREBRANDS (cf. Proverbs 26:18). The verb "gird" hardly suits the metaphor; hence it is better with many auth...
DISCOURSE: 956 A WORD IN SEASON Isaiah 50:10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of t...
BEHOLD, ALL YE, &C.— _Behold, all ye who strike out fire, and place fuel around; walk in the light of your fire, and of the fuel you have kindled._ It is universally agreed, that the adversaries of th...
TEXT: Isaiah 50:10-11 C. OUTCOME CONFIRMED 10 Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the nam...
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie dow...
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...
SPARKS] RV 'firebrands.' ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisio...
Some people refuse to listen to the *Lord’s servant. They want to live in whatever manner pleases him. They care only about themselves. These people would suffer a terrible punishment. The verse refer...
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...
ALL YE THAT KINDLE A FIRE. — The words obviously point to any human substitute for the Divine light, and thus include the two meanings which commentators have given them: (1) Man’s fiery wrath, that w...
הֵ֧ן כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם קֹ֥דְחֵי אֵ֖שׁ מְאַזְּרֵ֣י זִיקֹ֑ות...
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...
Behold, all ye that kindle (m) a fire, that surround [yourselves] with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie dow...
We have several examples in the ministry of God's servants, who, in their animated expostulations, adopt language like this. The Apostle Paul, after finishing a solemn discourse to his countrymen, on...
_A FIRE OF DYING SPARKS_ ‘Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of M...
11._Lo, all of you kindle a fire. _He upbraids the Jews with choosing to kindle for themselves their own light, instead of drawing near to the light of God. This passage has been badly expounded; and...
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...
BEHOLD, ALL YE THAT KINDLE A FIRE,.... To enlighten and warm yourselves; who, rejecting Christ the Light of the world, and despising the glorious light of his Gospel, and loving darkness rather than l...
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie...
_Who is among you that feareth the Lord?_ He now turns his speech from the unbelieving and rebellious Jews, to those of them who were, or should be, pious. _That obeyeth the voice of his servant_ Of t...
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, the adversaries who persist in their hatred of the Lord, THAT COMPASS YOURSELVES ABOUT WITH SPARKS, the reference being to the tying up of tarred tow around arrows,...
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...
10,11 A child of God is afraid of incurring his displeasure. This grace usually appears most in believers when in darkness, when other graces appear not. Those that truly fear God, obey the voice of...
ALL YE THAT KINDLE A FIRE, that you may enjoy the light and comfort of it, as it is explained in the following words. You that reject the light which God hath set up, and refuse the counsel of his ser...
Isaiah 50:11 kindle H6919 (H8802) fire H784 encircle H247 (H8764) sparks H2131 Walk H3212 (H8798) light...
‘Behold all you who kindle a fire, Who gird yourselves about with firebrands, Walk in the flame of your fire, And among the brands that you have kindled. This is what you will have from my hand,...
Isaiah 50:11 In this text the many fictitious sources from which men seek to derive happiness are compared to a fire kindled, and sparks struck out by way of relieving the darkness of the night. It i...
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...
_Behold, all ye that kindle a fire_ A CHILD OF DARKNESS WALKING IN LIGHT By the “fire” and “the light of their fire” which wicked men are said to walk in, two things must be meant. I. THEIR OWN NAT...
_Who is among you that feareth the Lord?_ THE FEAR OF THE LORD The fear of the Lord blends its operations with the exercise of every other grace. It intermixes with faith, and renders it fruitful; it...
_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...
DARKNESS EXPERIENCED, DARKNESS THREATENED Isaiah 50:10. _Who is among you that feareth the Lord, &c._ [1547] [1547] I believe this passage has been generally, if not dangerously, misunderstood. It ha...
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 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Amos 4:4; Amos 4:5; Exodus