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Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis.

when. came. Messiah speaks.

no man. See John 1:11. Compare Jeremiah 5:1.Acts 13:46; Acts 18:6; Acts 28:28.

Is My hand shortened... ? Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 11:23). Compare Isaiah 59:1. See App-92.

redeem. Hebrew. padah. See note on Exodus 13:13.

I dry up the sea. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 14:21). App-92.

rivers. Plural of majesty: i.e. the great river, the Jordan. Reference to Pentateuch (Joshua 4:7; Joshua 4:18). App-92. Compare Psalms 107:33.

their fish stinketh. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 7:18; Exodus 7:21).

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See also Isaiah 50:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 50:2. _THEIR FISH STINKETH _- "Their fish is dried up"] For תבאש _tibaosh, stinketh_, read תיבש _tibash, is dried up_; so it stands in the Bodl. MS., and it is confirmed by the _Septuagin...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEREFORE, WHEN I CAME, WAS THERE NO MAN? - That is, when I came to call you to repentance, why was there no man of the nation to yield obedience? The sense is, that they had not been punished without...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah expresses surprise that His message of redemption (delivered through the prophet) has been received with so little enthusiasm by the people. was there _no man?_ The expression occurs again in...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WHEREFORE.. ANSWER] These clauses emphasise the hopelessness of Israel's case from a human point of view. Only the divine power could effect the deliverance of the exiles....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHEREFORE, WHEN I CAME...? — The “coming” of Jehovah must be taken in all its width of meaning. He came in the deliverance from Babylon, in a promise of still greater blessings, in the fullest sense,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַדּ֨וּעַ בָּ֜אתִי וְ אֵ֣ין אִ֗ישׁ קָרָ֥אתִי֮...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (d) Why, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand (e) shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry u...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hear. My spouse had gone after other lovers. The people refused to hear the prophets; and the priests were become as corrupt as the rest, when the city was taken by the Chaldeans and by the Romans. ...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Why did I come? _This might be a reason assigned, that the people have not only brought upon themselves all immense mass of evils by provoking God’s anger, but have likewise, by their obstinacy, cu...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHEREFORE, WHEN I CAME, WAS THERE NO MAN?.... The Targum is, "why have I sent my prophets, and they are not converted?'' And so Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it of the prophets that prophesied unto...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Wherefore, when I came, was there no man, namely, to listen to the message of His prophets? WHEN I CALLED, WAS THERE NONE TO ANSWER? to assent to the preaching by which He intended to save their souls...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The general accusation delivered in the last words he now proveth by particular instances. _When I came; when I_, first by my prophets, and at last by my Son, came unto them, to call them to repentanc...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 50:2 came H935 (H8804) man H376 called H7121 (H8804) answer H6030 (H8802) hand H3027 shortened...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    REDEEM (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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;...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 50:2 I DRY UP THE SEA. See Exodus 14:21; Exodus 15:8....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 32:15; Daniel 3:15; Daniel 3:29; Daniel 6:20; Daniel 6:27

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wherefore — The general accusation delivered in the last words he now proves by particular instances. When — When I, first by my prophets, came to call them to repentance. No man — That complied with...

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