Isaiah 50:4
The Lorde God hath geuen me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them that are troubled, yea & that in due season: he wakeneth mine eare vp betymes in the mornyng, betymes in the mornyng I say he wyll waken mine eare, that I might hearke as to the schoolemaisters.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
In Context
3As for heauen I clothe it with darknesse, and put as it were a sacke vpon it.
5The Lorde God hath opened myne eare, and I haue not gaynesayde nor withdrawen my selfe.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:11A worde spoken in due season, is lyke apples of golde in a graued worke of siluer.
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 →