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I CLOTHE THE HEAVENS WITH BLACKNESS - With the dark clouds of a
tempest - perhaps with an allusion to the remarkable clouds and
tempests that encircled the brow of Sinai when he gave the law. Or
possi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TEACH, CHAPTER 50
a.
OBJECTIONS CANCELLED
TEXT: Isaiah 50:1-3
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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...
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
covering.
I CLOTHE THE HEAVENS WITH BLACKNESS - another of the judgments on
Egypt to be repeated hereafter on the last enemy of God'...
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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...
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After many years as *exiles, nobody imagined that they would ever see
their own country again. It was impossible. So, when the *Lord
promised to bring the *exiles home, nobody believed him.
• But sev...
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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...
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אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ שָׁמַ֖יִם קַדְר֑וּת וְ
שַׂ֖ק אָשִׂ֥ים...
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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...
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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...
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make (f) sackcloth their
covering.
(f) As I did in Egypt in token of my displeasure, (Exodus 10:21)....
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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...
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3._I clothe the heavens with blackness. _He mentions also that thick
darkness which was spread over all Egypt during the space of three
days. (Exodus 10:22.) At that time the heaven was clothed as wit...
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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...
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I CLOTHE THE HEAVENS WITH BLACKNESS,.... With gross and thick
darkness; perhaps referring to the three days' darkness the Egyptians
were in, Exodus 10:12, or with thick and black clouds, as in
tempest...
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
covering.
Ver. 3. _I clothe the heavens with blackness._] I did so in that three
days' darkness in Egypt, Exo 10:21-22 and shall do so...
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_Wherefore_, &c. The general accusation, delivered in the last words,
he now proves by particular instances: _When I came was there no man._
How comes it to pass, that, when I sent to you by my servan...
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, as in Egypt, Exodus 10:21, AND I
MAKE SACKCLOTH THEIR COVERING, the garment of mourning, whose color
was dark. Since the Lord was the absolute Master of the elemen...
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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...
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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...
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I CLOTHE THE HEAVENS WITH BLACKNESS; or, _I will or can clothe_ &c.
What I once did in Egypt, when I drew black curtains before all the
heavenly lights, and caused an unparalleled and amazing darkness...
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Isaiah 50:3 clothe H3847 (H8686) heavens H8064 blackness H6940 make
H7760 (H8799) sackcloth H8242 covering H3682...
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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...
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Isaiah 50:2
These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God
and man, the man Christ Jesus. They place before our thoughts:
I. His Divine power and glory. Power is naturally calm....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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_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...
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_Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?_
THE MEDIATOR: DIVINE AND HUMAN
These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God
and man, the man Christ Jesus They place before our tho...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:2 I DRY UP THE SEA. See Exodus 14:21;
Exodus 15:8....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Exodus 10:21; Matthew 27:45; Psalms 18:11; Psalms 18:12; Revelati
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I clothe — When it is necessary to save my people, I cover them with
thick and dark clouds black as sackcloth, Revelation 6:12....