Isaiah 50

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:7

Isaiah THE SERVANT’S INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE Isa_50:7 . What a striking contrast between the tone of these words and of the preceding! There all is gentleness, docility, still communion, submission, patient endurance. Here all is energy and determination, resistance and martial vigour. It is like the contrast between a priest and a warrior. And that gentleness is the parent of this boldness. The same Will which is all submission to God is all resistance in the face of hostile men. The utmost... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:8-9

Isaiah THE SERVANT’S TRIUMPH Isa_50:8 - Isa_50:9 . We have reached the final words of this prophecy, and we hear in them a tone of lofty confidence and triumph. While the former ones sounded plaintive like soft flute music, this rings out clear like the note of a trumpet summoning to battle. The Servant of the Lord seems here to be eager for the conflict, not merely patient and enduring, not merely setting His face like a flint, but confidently challenging His adversaries, and daring them... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:10

Isaiah A CALL TO FAITH Isa_50:10 . The persons addressed in this call to faith are ‘those who fear the Lord,’ and ‘obey the voice of His Servant.’ In that collocation is implied that these two things are necessarily connected, so that obedience to Christ is the test of true religion, and the fear of the Lord does not exist where the word of the Son is neglected or rejected. But besides that most fruitful and instructive juxtaposition, other important thoughts come into view here. The fact... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:11

Isaiah DYING FIRES Isa_50:11 . The scene brought before us in these words is that of a company of belated travellers in some desert, lighting a little fire that glimmers ineffectual in the darkness of the eerie waste. They huddle round its dying embers for a little warmth and company, and they hope it will scare wolf and jackal, but their fuel is all burned, and they have to go to sleep without its solace and security. The prophet’s imaginative picture is painted from life, and is a sad... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 50:1-11

Help for Those Who Trust in Him Isaiah 50:1-11 It is impossible for God to put away the soul that clings to Him in penitence and faith. Heaven and earth may be searched, but no bill of divorce can be found. See Deuteronomy 24:1 . And He sends His great servant, our Lord, of whom this chapter is full, to deliver and assure our trembling faith. Notice the difference in Isaiah 50:4 , between the Authorized Version and the Revised Version which reads, Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:1-11

Proceeding, Jehovah challenges the people to prove their assertion that they have been forsaken by producing the writing in which God has divorced His people, and declares to them that the reason of their separation was their sin, but that although Jehovah found no man, He Himself is determined on deliverance. We now come to the answer of the Servant to the call of Jehovah. This is, first of all, a declaration of consecration to the pathway of suffering (verses Isa 50:4-9 ). Taught of God, He... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:11

A FIRE OF DYING SPARKS‘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.’ Isaiah 50:11 In this text the many fictitious sources from which men seek to derive happiness are compared to a fire kindled, and sparks struck out by way of relieving the darkness of the night. It is of course implied in the metaphor that true happiness, the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 50

Chapter 50 The Call For A Man And The Reply Of The Servant. Chapter 49 ended with the idea of the return of the exiles around the world which had made the bewildered Zion look around unable to believe her eyes. In chapter 11 the same idea of the return followed the rise of the Spirit filled son of Jesse. So now the cry is, ‘is there no man?’ If the exiles are to return, where is the one who can deal with the situation and act for them before God? The answer is given here. He is the Servant.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 50:1-3

Is There No One To Answer When Yahweh Has The Power and the Will To Deliver? (Isaiah 50:1-3 ). Yahweh now rebukes His people. He points out that their failure to enjoy His blessings cannot be laid at His door. He has not turned away from them and divorced them. He has not sold them off as a creditor sells off his children. Their present position and condition is entirely due to their own fault. Indeed His power is not diminished at all. He is still powerful enough to dry up the sea with a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 50:4-9

But There is One who Will Answer, the Servant of Yahweh (Isaiah 50:4-9 ). But then there is an answer. There is a man who speaks up answers, but it is not quite as expected. Instead of the Spirit-filled King who will stride forward like a mighty warrior and exact justice (Isaiah 11:1-4), it is the voice of a humble Teacher, of One despised and ill-treated, One who is being falsely accused. For Israel are so sinful that they have even rejected God’s Man. He is not seen as Israel’s champion, He... read more

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:7

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:8-9

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:10

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 50:11

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 50:1-11

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:1-11

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 50

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 50:1-3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 50:4-9

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