Isaiah 50
11 verses
The third Servant Song depicts the servant's willingness to endure opposition and physical violence for the sake of proclaiming God's word, submitting His back to those who beat Him and His cheeks to those who pluck out His beard. The oracle emphasizes the servant's trust that God will vindicate Him and that He will not be put to shame because the Lord helps Him. The passage includes the servant's call to those who walk in darkness and have no light to trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon their God, establishing the servant's role as a guide for the faithless. The oracle promises that the Lord's arm will not be shortened and that His word will accomplish its purpose, establishing God's power and the reliability of God's proclamation. The vision includes the promise that the servants of the Lord will be vindicated and that those who oppose them will be consumed, establishing that ultimate vindication belongs to those faithful to God's purposes. Isaiah 50 demonstrates that the servant's vocation includes suffering and opposition yet that faithful trust in God produces ultimate vindication. The chapter establishes the theology of the suffering servant who perseveres in God's purposes despite encountering bitter opposition.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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.
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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 rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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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.
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The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
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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.
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For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
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He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
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Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
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Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
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Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
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