Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me the ability to teach others, to know how to encourage those who are exhausted with a word. He wakes me up every morning; he helps me listen as a disciple.
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3I can make the heavens go dark, covering them with sackcloth like they're in mourning.
5The Lord God has instructed me, and I haven't been rebellious and I haven't turned away.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11“Who gave people mouths?” the Lord asked him. “Who makes people deaf or dumb, able to see or blind? It's I, the Lord, who does that.
Deuteronomy 18:18I'm going to send them a prophet like you from their people. I will give him my messages, and he will tell them everything I order him to say.
Psalms 5:3Please listen to what I have to say in the morning, Lord. Every morning I put my requests to you and wait for your reply.
Psalms 45:2You are more handsome than anyone else. You always speak graciously, for God has blessed you forever.
Psalms 143:8Tell me every morning about your trustworthy love, because I put my confidence in you. Show me the way I should go, because I dedicate myself to you.
Proverbs 25:11Advice given at the right time is like golden apples set in 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 →