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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? Such being the condition of things; Judah having rejected me, not I them—why, "when I came" and announced deliverance from Babylon, was there no response? Why did no champion appear? Is it that my power was doubted? that it was feared my hand was shortened, so that it could not redeem or deliver? But I am he who has power with his rebuke to dry up the sea ( Exodus 14:21 ), to make rivers a wilderness ( Exodus 7:20 ; Joshua 3:16 , ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:2-3

God's power over nature. Modern pseudo-science, or "un-science," as it has been called, seems to hold that nature, having been once for all arranged and ordered by God, was thenceforth left to itself, being an automatic machine, bound to work in a certain way, needing no superintendence, and brooking no interference thenceforward. Hence miracles are regarded as impossible, or at any rate as non occurrent; and we are invited to ascribe to the combined influence of priestcraft and credulity... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness . The Egyptian plague of darkness ( Exodus 10:21-23 ) is not adequate to the expressions here used. God means to assert his power of leaving all nature in absolute darkness, if he so choose—a power necessarily belonging to him who said, "Let there be light; and there was light" ( Genesis 1:3 ). I make sackcloth their covering (see Revelation 6:12 , "The sun became black as sackcloth of hair"). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:1

Thus saith the Lord - To the Jews in Babylon, who were suffering under his hand, and who might be disposed to complain that God had dealt with them with as much caprice and cruelty as a man did with his wife, when he gave her a writing of divorce, and put her away without any just cause.Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement? - God here speaks of himself as the husband of his people, as having married the church to himself, denoting the tender affection which he had for his people. This... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? - That is, when I came to call you to repentance, why was there no man of the nation to yield obedience? The sense is, that they had not been punished without warning. He had called them to repentance, but no one heard his voice. The Chaldee renders this, ‘Wherefore did I send my prophets, and they did not turn? They prophesied, but they did not attend.’When I called, was there none to answer? - None obeyed, or regarded my voice. It was not, therefore,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness - With the dark clouds of a tempest - perhaps with an allusion to the remarkable clouds and tempests that encircled the brow of Sinai when he gave the law. Or possibly alluding to the thick darkness which he brought over the land of Egypt (Exodus 10:21; Grotius). In the previous verse, he had stated what he did on the earth, and referred to the exhibitions of his great power there. He here refers to the exhibition of his power in the sky; and the argument is,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 50:1

Isaiah 50:1. Thus saith the Lord God having, by his prophet, in the last three verses of the preceding chapter, comforted his people with an assurance of their deliverance from the tyrannical power of their enemies, here vindicates his justice in suffering them to be exposed thereto, showing that they were the causes of their own calamities. Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement? God had espoused the Jewish Church, the mother of the individuals of that people, to himself, in a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 50:2-3

Isaiah 50:2-3. Wherefore, &c. The general accusation, delivered in the last words, he now proves by particular instances: When I came was there no man. How comes it to pass, that, when I sent to you by my servants the prophets, there was no man that regarded my message and offer of grace, and complied with my will? Whereby he implies that the generality of the Jews were guilty of gross infidelity and obstinate disobedience, and therefore might justly be rejected. When I called them... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 50:1-3

Israel rebuilt (49:8-50:3)Once more God promises the return of the captive Jews to their homeland. God will protect them along the journey and help them as they rebuild their ruined country (8-10). Whether exiled in Babylon or scattered in other places, the people will return home amid much rejoicing (11-13).Some of the Jews thought God had forgotten them. God now shows that for him this is impossible (14-16). Israel will return and rebuild its homeland. Opponents who try to ruin Israel’s work... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 50:1

Thus. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "For thus". the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . Where . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. the bill = this bill. divorcement. Found only here, and in Jeremiah 3:8 outside the Pentateuch. See Deuteronomy 24:1 , Deuteronomy 24:3 . See App-92 . whom: or, wherewith. put away. . . sold. Note the Introversion of these words in this verse. Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . sold . . . put away. Note the Introversion. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:2-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 50:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 50:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 50:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 50:2-3

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 50:1-3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 50:1

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