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John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 50:1

50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the {a} bill of your mother’s divorcement, {b} whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] {c} to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.(a) Meaning, that he has not forsaken her, but through her own opportunity as in Hosea 2:2 .(b) Who would declare that I have cut her off: meaning, that they could show no one.(c) Signifying, that he sold them not for any debt... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 50:2

50:2 {d} Why, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand {e} 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 smelleth rotten, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.(d) He came by his prophets and ministers, but they would not believe their doctrine and convert.(e) Am I not able to help you, as I have helped your fathers of old, when I... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 50:3

50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make {f} sackcloth their covering.(f) As I did in Egypt in token of my displeasure, Exodus 10:21 . read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 50:4

50:4 The Lord GOD hath given {g} me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] {h} weary: he awakeneth morning by morning, he awakeneth my ear to hear {i} as the learned.(g) The prophet represents here the person and charge of them that are justly called to the ministry by God’s word.(h) To him that is oppressed by affliction and misery.(i) As they who are taught, and made meet by him. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 50:6

50:6 I gave my back to the {k} smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.(k) I did not shrink from God for any persecution or calamity. By which he shows that the true ministers of God can look for no other recompense of the wicked, but after this sort, and also that is their comfort. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 50:10

50:10 {l} 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 rely upon his God.(l) Showing that it is a rare thing that any should obey correctly God’s true ministers, though they labour to bring them from hell to heaven. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 50:11

50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle {m} a fire, that surround [yourselves] with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.(m) You have sought consolation by your own devises, and have refused the light and consolation which God has offered: therefore you will remain in sorrow and not be comforted. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 50:1-11

THE MESSIAH REVEALED The thirty-two chapters deal particularly with the Person and work of the Messiah. Isaiah has sometimes been called the evangelical prophet because of the large space he gives to that subject a circumstance the more notable because of the silence concerning it since Moses. The explanation of this silence is hinted at in the lesson on the introduction to the prophets. In chapter 49, the Messiah speaks of Himself and the failure of His mission in His rejection by His... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 50:1-11

A Word to the Weary Isa 50:4 The power of speaking to the weary is nothing less than a divine gift. As we see the divinity in our gifts shall we be careful of them, thankful for them: every gift seems to enshrine the giver, God. But how extraordinary that this power of speaking to the weary should not be taught in the schools. It is not within the ability of man to teach other men how to speak to the weary-hearted, the wounded in spirit, the sore in the innermost feelings of the being. But... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 50:1

CONTENTS Notwithstanding certain parts, here and there, in this Chapter, which may, at the first glance, appear to have an historical allusion to Babylon and the captivity: yet the great and evident point in the whole hath reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. His person, offices, and character, are strongly marked. read more

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