Isaiah 50:4
The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.
5The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?
Deuteronomy 18:18m I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
Psalms 5:3Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.
Psalms 45:2My heart hath uttered a good word I speak my works to the king; My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.
Psalms 143:8Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me.
Proverbs 25:11To speak a word in due 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 →