Isaiah 50:4
The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I would know how to uphold with a word, one who has weakened. He rises in the morning, he rises to my ear in the morning, so that I may heed him like a teacher.
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In Context
3I will clothe the heavens in darkness, and I will make sackcloth their covering.
5The Lord God has opened my ear. And I do not contradict him. I have not turned back.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11The Lord said to him: “Who made the mouth of man? And who has formed the mute and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Was it not I?
Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise up a prophet for them, from the midst of their brothers, similar to you. And I will place my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all the things that I will instruct him.
Psalms 5:3Attend to the voice of my prayer, my King and my God.
Psalms 45:2Our God is our refuge and strength, a helper in the tribulations that have greatly overwhelmed us.
Psalms 143:8Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
Proverbs 25:11Whoever speaks a word at an opportune time is like apples of gold on beds 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 →