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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
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 being smitten and stricken with the palms of men's...
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
I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Now let me go back a little, and read again the third verse, “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” “I gave my back to the smiters, and my checks to them that plucked off the hair.” It is the same divine Person, who musters the hosts of...
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 smiters, and his cheeks to them that plucked off...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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. 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. Even though he had to stoop so low as to endure shame and spitting, he knew that the ultimate result would be glory to God...