Isaiah 50:4
The Lord even God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.
5and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man, and who has made the very hard of hearing, and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? have not I, God?
Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.
Psalms 5:3Attend to the voice of my supplication, 1 My King, and my God: 1 For to thee, O Lord, will I pray. 1
Psalms 45:2God is our refuge and strength, 1 A help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us. 1
Psalms 143:8Whose mouth has spoken vanity, 1 And their right hand is a right hand of iniquity. 1
Proverbs 25:11As a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, 1 So is it to speak a wise word. 1
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 →