Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
3I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”
5The Lord GOD has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11The LORD said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, the LORD?
Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
Psalms 5:3LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
Psalms 45:2You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psalms 143:8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of 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 →