Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
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5The Lord GOD has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
Cross References
Nehemiah 13:25I contended with them, cursed them, struck certain of them, plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Psalms 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
Isaiah 53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
Lamentations 3:30Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
Matthew 5:39But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 27:26Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to 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 →