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    Isaiah · 11 verses

    Isaiah 50

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    The sea is dried by rebuke, the rivers become desert, and the fish rot for lack of water before dying of thirst.

    A rebuke that dries the worldvv. 1–3

    The LORD answers an absent audience with questions about divorce, debt, and silence. No creditor is named, but the reason for the sale is plain: iniquities and transgressions. Then comes a formidable little piece of weather: the sea dries, rivers turn to desert, fish perish of thirst, and the heavens are dressed in black.

    The Servant stands fastvv. 4–9

    The Servant has been given a trained tongue for the weary and an ear opened morning by morning. Rebellion does not follow. Striking, beard-tearing, scorn, and spittle do. Yet the face is set like flint, while the One who vindicates draws near and the accusers are invited to bring their case. Their grand future is less grand than it sounds: they will wear out like a garment, and moths will finish the matter.

    The fire that gives no safe lightvv. 10–11

    The final word separates those who fear the LORD and obey His Servant from those who kindle their own fire and parade about by its glow. That homemade illumination receives a remarkably poor destination: the fire-kindlers lie down in a place of torment.

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    1. Isa 50:1This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

    2. Isa 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

    3. Isa 50:3I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

    4. Isa 50:4The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

    5. Isa 50:5The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.

    6. Isa 50:6I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

    7. Isa 50:7Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.

    8. Isa 50:8The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!

    9. Isa 50:9Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.

    10. Isa 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

    11. Isa 50:11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 4Luke 21:15For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
    • 4Jeremiah 1:9Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
    • 4John 7:15–17The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
    • 4Exodus 4:11–12And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
    • 4Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
    • 10John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
    • 4Proverbs 15:23A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!
    • 6Matthew 26:67Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
    • 7Hebrews 13:6So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
    • 4Psalms 119:147I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
    • 4Psalms 5:3In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.
    • 6Mark 14:65Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.
    • 7Ezekiel 3:8–9Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
    • 10Micah 7:7–9But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
    • 10Isaiah 26:3–4You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
    • 10Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

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