Isaiah 50

1 # Deut 24.1, 3; 32.30; Isa 48.8; 52.3; 54.6, 7; Jer 3.8 Thus says the Lord:

Where is your mother’s bill of divorce

with which I dismissed her?

Or which of my creditors is it

to whom I have sold you?

No, because of your sins you were sold,

and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.

2 # Ex 14.21; Num 11.23; Josh 3.16; Isa 59.1; 65.12; 66.4 Why was no one there when I came?

Why did no one answer when I called?

Is my arm powerless to redeem?

Or have I no strength to deliver?

By my rebuke I dry up the sea;

I make the rivers a desert,

so that their fish stink for lack of water

and die of thirst.#50.2 Or die on the thirsty ground

3 # Isa 13.10; Rev 6.12 I clothe the heavens with blackness

and make sackcloth their covering.

The Servant’s Humiliation and Vindication

4 # Ps 143.8; Isa 54.13; Jer 31.25 The Lord God has given me

a trained tongue,#50.4 Cn: Heb of those who are taught

that I may know how to sustain

the weary with a word.

Morning by morning he wakens,

wakens my ear

to listen as those who are taught.

5 # Ps 40.6; Mt 26.39; Jn 8.29; 14.31; Phil 2.8 The Lord God has opened my ear,

and I was not rebellious;

I did not turn backward.

6 # Isa 53.5; Mt 26.67; Lk 22.63 I gave my back to those who struck me

and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;

I did not hide my face

from insult and spitting.

7 # Isa 49.8; 54.4; Ezek 3.8, 9 The Lord God helps me;

therefore I have not been disgraced;

therefore I have set my face like flint,

and I know that I shall not be put to shame;

8 # Rom 8.32–34 he who vindicates me is near.

Who will contend with me?

Let us stand in court together.

Who are my adversaries?

Let them confront me.

9 # Isa 41.10; 51.8; 54.17 It is the Lord God who helps me;

who will declare me guilty?

All of them will wear out like a garment;

the moth will eat them up.

10 # Isa 9.2; 12.2; 49.2, 3; Eph 5.8 Who among you fears the Lord

and obeys the voice of his servant,

who walks in darkness

and has no light,

yet trusts in the name of the Lord

and relies upon his God?

11 # Ps 35.8; Isa 65.13–15 But all of you are kindlers of fire,

lighters of firebrands.#50.11 Syr: Heb you gird yourselves with firebrands

Walk in the flame of your fire

and among the brands that you have kindled!

This is what you shall have from my hand:

you shall lie down in torment.

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Isaiah 50

1Thus says the Lord:

“Where is your mother's bill of divorce,

with which I put her away?

Or which of my creditors is it

to whom I have sold you?

Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,

and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

2Why, when I came, was there no man?

When I called, was there no one to answer?

Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,

I make the rivers a desert;

their fish stink for lack of water,

and die of thirst.

3I clothe the heavens with blackness,

and make sackcloth their covering.”

4The Lord God has given me

the tongue of those who are taught,

that I may know how to sustain with a word

him that is weary.

Morning by morning he wakens,

he wakens my ear

to hear as those who are taught.

5The Lord God has opened my ear,

and I was not rebellious,

I turned not backward.

6I gave my back to the smiters,

and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;

I hid not my face

from shame and spitting.

7For the Lord God helps me;

therefore I have not been confounded;

therefore I have set my face like a flint,

and I know that I shall not be put to shame;

8 # Rom 8.33; Heb 1.11. he who vindicates me is near.

Who will contend with me?

Let us stand up together.

Who is my adversary?

Let him come near to me.

9Behold, the Lord God helps me;

who will declare me guilty?

Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;

the moth will eat them up.

10Who among you fears the Lord

and obeys the voice of his servant,

who walks in darkness

and has no light,

yet trusts in the name of the Lord

and relies upon his God?

11Behold, all you who kindle a fire,

who set brands alight!#50.11 Syr: Heb gird yourselves with brands

Walk by the light of your fire,

and by the brands which you have kindled!

This shall you have from my hand:

you shall lie down in torment.

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