Isaiah 50:6
I have given My back to those striking, || And My cheeks to those plucking out, || I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
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5Lord YHWH opened My ear, || And I did not rebel—I did not move backward.
Cross References
Nehemiah 13:25And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and strike certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, “You do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do you take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.
Psalms 69:8I have been a stranger to my brother, || And a foreigner to sons of my mother.
Isaiah 53:5And He is pierced for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, || The discipline of our peace [is] on Him, || And by His scourging we are healed.
Lamentations 3:30He gives to his striker the cheek, || He is filled with reproach.
Matthew 5:39but I say to you not to resist the evil, but whoever will slap you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other;
Matthew 27:26Then he released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered [Him] up that He may be crucified;
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 →