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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 50 This chapter is a prophecy of the rejection of the Jews, for their neglect and contempt of the Messiah; and of his discharge of his office as Mediator, and fitness for it. The rejection of the Jews is signified by the divorce of a woman from her husband, and by persons selling their children to their creditors; which is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord,.... Here begins a new discourse or prophecy, and therefore thus prefaced, and is continued in the following chapter: where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? these words are directed to the Jews, who stood in the same relation to the Jewish church, or synagogue, as children to a mother; and so the...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
In this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wilfulness and obstinacy, it being made to appear that God was able and ready to help them if they had been fit for deliverance, ver. 1-3. II. He by whom God sends produces his commission (ver. 4), alleges his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD, There is always something weighty coming when you have this preface. If God speaks, we ought to hear with reverence, with attention. Isa_50:1. 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? God is here addressing his ancient people; they had been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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? There were some who said God had put away, like a divorced woman, his ancient people, that he had sold his children into slavery; but he says, “It is not so. Where is the bill of divorcement? To whom...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? Sometimes, the headings to the chapters in our Bible give us the meaning of the passage. They are, of course, not inspired, and are merely put there by the translators but, sometimes, they are little comments upon the text. It is so in the heading of this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?.... The Targum is, "why have I sent my prophets, and they are not converted?'' And so Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it of the prophets that prophesied unto them, to bring them to repentance: the Lord might be said to come by his prophets, his messengers; but they did not receive them, nor their messages,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? It is Christ who is speaking here by the mouth of the prophet. When he came, there was “no man.” He could not find in all the nation any faithful one to help him in his great redemptive work. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” He preached...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Christ came to this world at a time when there practically seemed to be none left on the earth who were good for anything. The Pharisees, who were, outwardly, the most religious of men, were proud formalists and base hypocrites, and the whole nation had gone astray...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t 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. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I clothe the heavens with blackness,.... With gross and thick darkness; perhaps referring to the three days' darkness the Egyptians were in, Exodus 10:12, or with thick and black clouds, as in tempestuous weather frequently; or by eclipses of the sun; there was an extraordinary instance of great darkness at the time of Christ's crucifixion,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 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. This is Christ speaking again. When he came here, though be found no man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 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. Notice the wonderful contrast between the third verse and the fourth. It...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,.... These are not the words of the prophet, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and others think; though what is here said is applicable to ministers of the word, who have to do with weary souls, and it is their work to comfort and refresh them; and which work requires knowledge and experience of their case,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Just as scholars learn from their teacher. It was a wondrous stoop for the Omnipotent to become a learner; but he descended lower than that.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord God hath opened mine ear,.... To hear most freely, and receive most fully, what is said by him, and to observe and do it: the allusion seems to be to the servant that had his ears bored, being willing to serve his master for ever, Exodus 21:5 which phrase of boring or opening the ear is used of Christ, Psalms 40:6. It is expressive of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. He had his ear bored, as slaves had when they would not go out free, but meant to remain with their master. Christ had a bored ear, an opened ear. He never rebelled against God’s will. He was obedient to the Father, even unto death. If you want to know how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 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. That same Divine One was, in due time, veiled in human flesh; and, then, he, who covered the heavens with blackness, gave his back to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. This was another step in the ladder of Christ’s humiliation, but he went lower still. Read the 3rd verse again, and then read the 6th. “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I gave my back to the smiters,.... To Pontius Pilate, and those he ordered to scourge him, Matthew 27:26 and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; of the beard; which, is painful, so a great indignity and affront. The Septuagint renders it, "and my cheeks to blows"; ειςραπισματα, a word used by the evangelists when they speak of Christ...