(KJV) Isaiah 501

<< Isaiah 49 Isaiah 51 >>

⥃Israel’s Sin

[1] Thus saith the Lord, Where [is] the bill2 of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which3 of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold4, for your iniquities5 have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. [2] Wherefore, when I came6, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my7 hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I8 no power to deliver? behold, at my9 rebuke I dry10 up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish11 stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst. [3] I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.12

⥃The Servant’s Obedience [ Matthew 27:27–31 † Mark 15:16–20 † Luke 22:63–65 † John 19:1–15 ]

[4] The Lord God13 hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word14 in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the15 learned.

[5] [¶]The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.16 [6] I gave17 my back to the smiters, and my cheeks18 to them that plucked19 off the hair: I hid20 not my face from shame and spitting.

[7] [¶]For the Lord21 God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set22 my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. [8] [He is] near that23 justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us24 stand together: who [is] mine adversary25? let him come near to me. [9] Behold, the Lord God will help me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? lo, they all26 shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

[10] Who [is] among27 you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth28 the voice of his servant, that walketh29 [in] darkness, and hath no light? let30 him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. [11] Behold, all ye31 that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk32 in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall33 ye have of mine hand; ye shall34 lie down in sorrow.

<< Isaiah 49 Isaiah 51 >>

  1. Isa 50:1, Christ shews that the dereliction of the Jews is not to be imputed to him, by his ability to save; Isa 50:5, by his obedience in that work; Isa 50:7, and by his confidence in that assistance; Isa 50:10, An exhortation to trust in God, and not in ourselves. ↩

  2. Deut 24:1-4; Jer 3:1, Jer 3:8; Hos 2:2-4; Mark 10:4-12 ↩

  3. Exod 21:7; Lev 25:39; Deut 32:30; 2Kgs 4:1; Neh 5:5; Esth 7:4; Ps 44:12; Matt 18:25 ↩

  4. Husbands often sent bills of divorcement to their wives on slight occasions; and fathers, oppressed with debt, sold their children till the year of release. But this, saith God, cannot be my case: I am not governed by any such motives, nor am I urged by any such necessity. Your captivity and afflictions are the fruits of your own folly and wickedness. ↩

  5. Isa 52:3, Isa 59:1-2; 1Kgs 21:25; 2Kgs 17:17; Jer 3:8, Jer 4:18 ↩

  6. Isa 59:16, Isa 65:12, Isa 66:4; Prov 1:24; Jer 5:1, Jer 7:13, Jer 8:6, Jer 35:15; Hos 11:2, Hos 11:7; John 1:11, John 3:19 ↩

  7. Isa 59:1; Gen 18:14; Num 11:23 ↩

  8. Isa 36:20; 2Chr 32:15; Dan 3:15, Dan 3:29, Dan 6:20, Dan 6:27 ↩

  9. Ps 106:9; Nah 1:4; Mark 4:39 ↩

  10. Isa 42:15, Isa 43:16, Isa 51:10, Isa 63:13; Exod 14:21, Exod 14:29; Josh 3:16; Ps 107:33; Ps 114:3-7 ↩

  11. Exod 7:18, Exod 7:21 ↩

  12. Exod 10:21; Ps 18:11-12; Matt 27:45; Rev 6:12 ↩

  13. Exod 4:11-12; Ps 45:2; Jer 1:9; Matt 22:46; Luke 4:22, Luke 21:15; John 7:46 ↩

  14. Isa 57:15-19; Prov 15:23, Prov 25:11; Matt 11:28, Matt 13:54 ↩

  15. John 7:15-17 ↩

  16. Isa 48:8; Ps 40:6-8; Matt 26:39; John 8:29, John 14:31, John 15:10; Phil 2:8; Heb 5:8; Heb 10:5-9 ↩

  17. Lam 3:30; Mic 5:1; Matt 5:39, Matt 26:67, Matt 27:26; Mark 14:65, Mark 15:19; Luke 22:63-64; John 18:22; Heb 12:2 ↩

  18. The eastern people always held the beard in great veneration; and to pluck a man's beard is one of the grossest indignities that can be offered. D'Arvieux gives a remarkable instance of an Arab, who, having received a wound in his jaw, chose to hazard his life rather than suffer the surgeon to cut off his beard. See note on 2Sam 10:4. ↩

  19. Neh 13:25 ↩

  20. Another instance of the utmost contempt and detestation. Throughout the East it is highly offensive to spit in any one's presence; and if this is such an indignity, how much more spitting in the face? ↩

  21. Isa 50:9, Isa 42:1, Isa 49:8; Ps 89:21-27, Ps 110:1; John 16:33; Heb 13:6 ↩

  22. Jer 1:18; Ezek 3:8-9; Matt 23:13-36; Luke 9:51, Luke 11:39-54; Rom 1:16; 1Pet 4:1, 1Pet 4:16 ↩

  23. Rom 8:32-34; 1Tim 3:16 ↩

  24. Isa 41:1, Isa 41:21; Exod 22:9; Deut 19:17; Job 23:3-7; Matt 5:25 ↩

  25. Heb. the master of my cause, Zech 3:1-10; Rev 12:10 ↩

  26. Isa 51:6-8; Job 13:28; Ps 39:11, Ps 102:26; Heb 1:11-12 ↩

  27. Ps 25:12, Ps 25:14, Ps 111:10, Ps 112:1, Ps 128:1; Eccl 12:13; Mal 3:16 ↩

  28. Isa 42:1, Isa 49:3, Isa 53:11; Heb 5:9 ↩

  29. Isa 9:2, Isa 59:9; Job 29:3; Ps 23:4; Lam 3:2; John 8:12, John 12:46 ↩

  30. Isa 26:3-4; 1Sam 30:6; 1Chr 5:20; 2Chr 20:12, 2Chr 20:20; Job 13:15, Job 23:8-10; Ps 27:13-14, Ps 28:7, Ps 40:1-4, Ps 42:11, Ps 62:8, Ps 145:21; Lam 3:25-26; Mic 7:7-9; 2Cor 1:8-10; 1Pet 5:7 ↩

  31. Isa 28:15-20, Isa 30:15-16, Isa 55:2; Ps 20:7-8; Jer 17:5-7; Jonah 2:8; Matt 15:6-8; Rom 1:21-22, Rom 10:3 ↩

  32. Exod 11:9-10; Ezek 20:39; Amos 4:4-5 ↩

  33. John 9:39 ↩

  34. Isa 8:22, Isa 65:13-16; Ps 16:4, Ps 32:10; Matt 8:12, Matt 22:13; John 8:24; 2Thess 1:8-9; Rev 19:20, Rev 20:15 ↩