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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 not to be charged upon the Lord, but was owing to...
John Gill
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,.... To enlighten and warm yourselves; who, rejecting Christ the Light of the world, and despising the glorious light of his Gospel, and loving darkness rather than light, set up the light of nature and reason as the rule of faith and practice; or the traditions and doctrines of men to be guided by; or their own righteousness for their justification before God,...
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 own readiness to submit to all the services and...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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. If you think to make yourselves happy in sin, go and do it. If you fancy that your own righteousness will save you, go and try it. Isa_50:11. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. Your fire shall not warm you; your sparks...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,— Listen to this, ye who live without God, yet think yourselves happy; ye who have no hope of the great hereafter, yet are content with the present: “Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,”— Isa_50:11. That compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and, in the sparks that ye have kindled. “Be happy while you may; have ‘a short life and a...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, Ye who would fain save yourselves, — Isa_50:11. That compass yourselves about with sparks: Or, firebrands, — Isa_50:11. Walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks — Or, flambeaux — Isa_50:11. That ye have kindled. That will be the end of it. This grand illumination of yours, — all your good works, all your glorious intellect, and I know not what, — what...