Verse Isaiah 50:6. _AND MY CHEEKS TO THEM THAT PLUCKED OFF THE HAIR_] The greatest indignity that could possibly be offered. See the note on Isaiah 7:20. _I HID NOT MY FACE FROM SHAME AND SPITTING._...
I GAVE MY BACK TO THE SMITERS - I submitted willingly to be scourged, or whipped. This is one of the parts of this chapter which can be applied to no other one but the Messiah. There is not the slight...
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...
I GAVE, &C. Fulfilled in Matthew 26:67; Matthew 27:26....
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...
That persecutions were to be incurred in the performance of his work is already indicated in the last words of Isaiah 50:5; now the speaker declares his voluntary acquiescence in the hardships of his...
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...
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. SMITERS - with scourges and with the open hand (). ; Matt. 28:26; , inform...
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...
The Servant was willing to suffer. • To pull out the hairs of a man’s beard was not only painful. It was the traditional way to bring shame upon a man (see Isaiah 7:20; Isaiah 15:2; Nehemiah 13:25)....
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 LORD GOD. — _Jehovah Adonai,_ as before. The Servant continues his soliloquy. What has come to him in the morning communings with God is, as in the next verse, that he too is to bear reproach and...
גֵּוִי֙ נָתַ֣תִּי לְ מַכִּ֔ים וּ לְחָיַ֖י לְ
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 gave my back to the (k) smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. (k) I did not shrink from God for any persecution or calamity. By which...
_Spit. The greatest indignity, Job xxx. 10., and Deuteronomy xxv. 9. Yet this was the treatment of our Saviour, Luke xviii. 31., and Matthew xxvi. 67. (Calmet) --- "The great Grotius, (I wish he were...
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...
6._I exposed my body to the smiters. _With the reproaches, jeers, and insolence of wicked men, he contrasts the unshaken courage which he possesses; as if he had said that, “whatever resistancemay be...
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...
I GAVE MY BACK TO THE SMITERS,.... To Pontius Pilate, and those he ordered to scourge him, Matthew 27:26 AND MY CHEEKS TO THEM THAT PLUCKED OFF THE HAIR; of the beard; which, is painful, so a great i...
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Ver. 6. _I gave my back to the smiters._] _Ecce pro impio pietas flagellatur...
_The Lord hath opened mine ear_ Hath given me a power and will to hear and receive his commands. _And I was not rebellious_ I readily did and suffered what he required of me. _Neither turned away back...
I gave My back to the smiters, in the terrible seourgings to which He was subjected in His great Passion, Matthew 26:67; Matthew 27:26 ff.; John 19, AND MY CHEEKS TO THEM THAT PLUCKED OFF THE HAIR, in...
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...
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...
I GAVE MY BACK TO THE SMITERS; I patiently yielded up myself, and turned my back to those who smote me. I was willing not only to do, but to suffer, the will of God, and the injuries of men. This and...
Isaiah 50:6 gave H5414 (H8804) back H1460 struck H5221 (H8688) cheeks H3895 out H4803 (H8802) hide...
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...
_I gave My back to the smiters_ THE SHAME AND SMITING I. AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF GOD. In the person of Christ Jesus, God himself came into the world, making a special visitation to Jerusalem and the...
_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...
_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...
OUR SAVIOUR’S SUBMISSION TO SHAME AND SUFFERING Isaiah 50:6. _I gave my back to the smiters, &c._ It was for _us_ that our Lord thus submitted to shame and suffering. May a spirit of tenderness, and...
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 12:2; John 18:22; Lamentations 3:30; Luke 22:63; Luke 22:64;...
I gave — I patiently yielded up myself to those who smote me....