Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 50:9
They — Mine accusers and enemies. The moth — Shall be cut off and consumed by a secret curse.
They — Mine accusers and enemies. The moth — Shall be cut off and consumed by a secret curse.
THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME - (See Isaiah 50:7). In the Hebrew this is, ‘The Lord Jehovah,’ as it is in Isaiah 50:7 also, and these are among the places where our translators have improperly rendered th...
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...
CONDEMN ME. prove Me lawless....
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 consciousness of innocence is expressed (as often in the Book of Job) under the conception of a legal process....
_who_is _he_that _shall condemn me_?] Comp. Romans 8:33 f. _wax old_(better, BE WORN OUT) _as a garment; the moth &c._ Common images of gradual but inevitable destruction (cf. ch. Isaiah 51:6; Isaiah...
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...
LO, THEY ALL SHALL WAX OLD AS A GARMENT— The simple sense of this metaphorical expression is, that all the adversaries of Christ should be abolished and done away, like a garment, which grows vile and...
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...
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. BEHOLD, THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME - cf. , margin; ; ;...
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 attacks of those who oppose the Servant are too weak to succeed. Old clothes that insects have spoiled will fall to pieces. And the accuser’s arguments have no more substance than those old clothe...
THEY ALL SHALL WAX OLD AS A GARMENT. — An echo of Job 13:28; Psalms 102:26; reproduced in Isaiah 51:6....
הֵ֣ן אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ יַֽעֲזָר ־לִ֔י מִי ־ה֖ו
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...
9._Who is he that condemmeth me? _Paul appears to allude to this passage, in his Epistle to the Romans, when he says, “It is God that justifieth; who shall condemn?” (Romans 8:33.) We may safely have...
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, THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME,.... This is repeated from Isa 50:7, Isaiah 50:7; to show the certainty of it, the strength of his faith in it, and to discourage his enemies: WHO IS HE THAT SHALL C...
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Ver. 9. _Behold, the Lord God will help me._] See Isaiah 5...
_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...
Behold, the Lord God will help Me, standing at His side against all enemies; WHO IS HE THAT SHALL CONDEMN ME? namely, by bringing a charge which may be substantiated. LO, THEY, the adversaries, ALL SH...
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...
THAT SHALL CONDEMN ME; that dare attempt it, or can justly do it. THEY ALL, mine accusers and enemies, SHALL WAX OLD AS A GARMENT; the moth shall eat them up: shall pine away in their iniquity, as God...
Isaiah 50:9 Lord H136 GOD H3069 help H5826 (H8799) condemn H7561 (H8686) old H1086 (H8799) garment...
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 50:1. _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...
_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) ; “...
_He is near that justifieth Me_ JEHOVAH THE JUSTIFIER The consciousness of innocence is expressed (as often in the Book of Job) under the conception of a legal process. (_Prof. J. Skinner, D. D._)...
_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 50:8 As Isaiah 53:4 will make clear, the servant did not suffer because he was GUILTY but because others were guilty....
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...
Hebrews 1:11; Hebrews 1:12; Isaiah 51:6; Job 13:28; Psalms 102:26;...