Isaiah 50:4
Lord YHWH has given to Me || The tongue of taught ones, || To know to aid the weary [by] a word, || He awakens [Me] morning by morning, || He awakens [My] ear to hear as taught ones.
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In Context
3I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, || And I make their covering sackcloth.”
5Lord YHWH opened My ear, || And I did not rebel—I did not move backward.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11And YHWH says to him, “Who appointed a mouth for man? Or who appoints the mute, or deaf, or open, or blind? Is it not I, YHWH?
Deuteronomy 18:18I raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers, and I have given My words in His mouth, and He has spoken to them all that which I command Him;
Psalms 5:3YHWH, [in] the morning You hear my voice, || [In] the morning I set in array for You, || And I look out [expectantly].
Psalms 45:2You have been beautified above the sons of men, || Grace has been poured into Your lips, || Therefore God has blessed You for all time.
Psalms 143:8Cause me to hear Your kindness in the morning, || For I have trusted in You, || Cause me to know the way that I go, || For I have lifted up my soul to You.
Proverbs 25:11Apples of gold in imagery of silver, || [Is] the word spoken at its fit times.
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 →