Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
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3By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
5And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Deuteronomy 18:18I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.
Psalms 5:3\5:2\Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.
Psalms 45:2\45:1\My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms 143:8Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.
Proverbs 25:11A word at the right time is like 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 →