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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 50:1-3

Isaiah 49:22 to Isaiah 50:3 . The Promises to Zion Elaborated and Confirmed.— At a sign from Yahweh the nations shall with solicitous care bring back the exiles to Zion. Kings and queens shall tend them and do them abject homage (is it too abject for the prophet to have penned Isaiah 49:23 or Isaiah 49:26?). So shall His people’ s trust in their God be justified. But from such mighty ones can the captives be freed? Yes: for Yahweh will fight His people’ s battle, and cause their oppressors... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 50:1

Thus saith the Lord: this is another sermon begun here, and continued in the next chapter. The main scope of it is to vindicate God’s justice, and to convince the Jews that they were the causes of all their calamities which they imputed to God. Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement? God had formerly espoused’ the Israelites to himself in a kind of matrimonial covenant, but seemed to cast them off when he sent them to Babylon, and did wholly reject them afterward from being his people,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 50:2

The general accusation delivered in the last words he now proveth by particular instances. When I came; when I, first by my prophets, and at last by my Son, came unto them, to call them to repentance, and to redeem and deliver them, as it is explained in the following clauses of this verse. No man that regarded and received me, that complied with my call and offer of grace, as it follows; whereby he implies that the generality of the Jews were guilty of gross infidelity and obstinate... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness; or, I will or can clothe &c. What I once did in Egypt, when I drew black curtains before all the heavenly lights, and caused an unparalleled and amazing darkness for three days together, to the great terror of mine enemies, so I can and will do still when it is necessary to save my people. And therefore you have no reason to distrust me. I make sackcloth their covering; I cover them with thick and dark clouds, black as sackcloth, as is said, Revelation... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 50:1-4

SINFUL ISRAEL SELF-RUINEDIsaiah 50:1-3. Thus saith the Lord, Where is the hill, &c.Those who have professed to be the people of God, and yet seem to be severely dealt with, are apt to complain of God, and to lay the fault upon Him, as if He had severely dealt with them. But, in answer to their murmurings, we have here—bill.I. A CHALLENGE TO PRODUCE ANY EVIDENCE THAT THE QUARREL BEGAN ON GOD’S SIDE (Isaiah 50:1). They could not say that He had done them any wrong, or had acted arbitrarily.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 50:2-4

Isaiah 50:2-4 These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. They place before our thoughts: I. His Divine power and glory. Power is naturally calm. The power that sustains the universe is, in fact, most wonderful when, unseen, unfelt, with its Divine silence and infinite ease, it moves on in its ordinary course; but we are often most impressed by it when it strikes against obstructions, and startles the senses by its violence. Knowing our... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Isaiah 50:2

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 50:1-11

Chapter 50Now in chapter 50 another marvelous prophecy of Jesus Christ and of the humiliation that He would receive from His own people.Thus saith the LORD ( Isaiah 50:1 ),Talking to Israel now.Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away ( Isaiah 50:1 ).So God is declaring that the nation was divorced. It was... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 50:1-11

Isaiah 50:1 . Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement. That is, of Jerusalem, gone over to the worship of Baal. God did not divorce the synagogue, till she had first committed adultery, the only cause for which a man can justly put away his wife. Zion had even given hire to her lovers, and sold herself for nought. This argument is given at large in Ezekiel 16:0. Isaiah 50:5 . The Lord hath opened mine ear. All the depths of divine wisdom, in the mystery of human redemption, were... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 50:1-3

Isaiah 50:1-3Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement?--Jehovah and unfaithful IsraelThese Israelites went to the only kind of law with which they were familiar, and borrowed from it two of its forms, which were not only suggested to them by the relations in which the nation and the nation’s sons respectively stood to Jehovah, as wife and as children, but admirably illustrated the ideas they wished to express. (1) There was the form of divorce, so expressive of the... read more

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