Isaiah 50:4
Lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
5Lord LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backward.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11And LORD said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes [a man] dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, LORD?
Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like thee. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
Psalms 5:3O LORD, in the morning thou shall hear my voice. In the morning I will direct to thee, and will keep watch.
Psalms 45:2Thou are fairer than the sons of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God has blessed thee forever.
Psalms 143:8Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for in thee do I trust. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to thee.
Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is apples of gold in a network of silver.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 50:2-4
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Thus saith the Lord , Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2 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 sea, I make the… Read the whole commentary →