Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
5The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
Cross References
Nehemiah 13:25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God: 'Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Psalms 69:8(69-9) I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Isaiah 53:5But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed.
Lamentations 3:30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him, let him be filled full with reproach.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 50:5-10
Work and Sufferings of the Messiah. ( b. c. 706.) 4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I… Read the whole commentary →