Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens mine ear to hear as the learned.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
5The Lord GOD has opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
Cross References
Exodus 4:11And the LORD said unto him, Who has made man's mouth? or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Psalms 5:3My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto you, and will look up.
Psalms 45:2You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.
Psalms 143:8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto you.
Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures 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 →