Chapters
Isaiah (66 chapters)
Isaiah 50
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Adonai says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your depravities (moral evils), and your mother was put away for your rebellious breaches of relationships.
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Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
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Notes
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. Quoted in Rev 6:12
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'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to sh'ma ·hear obey· as those who are taught.
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. MP: The Messiah speaks with knowledge taught to him from God, not from men. (Matt 7:29; Mark 1:27; Luke 4:32, 4:36; John 12:49-50)
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a MP: Messiah’s teachings can sustain the weary. (Matt 11:28)
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'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
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. MP: Messiah is not rebellious to God’s will. (John 12:27)
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I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from insult and spitting.
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a MP: Messiah’s back is whipped. “I gave my back to the smiters.” (John 19:1)
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. MP: Messiah’s face is beaten according to the Greek Septuagint translation. The Hebrew Masoretic text reads plucking out the beard. Note: In (2 Sam 10:4), plucking out the beard is a great insult. Both interpretations can be valid as prophecy. (Mark 14:65 with 2 Sam 10:4)
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b MP: Messiah is mocked to his face. “I did not hide my face from insult”. (Matt 26:67)
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b MP: Messiah is spat upon in his face. “I did not hide my face from... spitting”. (Matt 26:67, 27:30)
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. Quoted in Matt 26:67; Mark 10:34
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For 'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
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b MP: Messiah’s face is set like flint, steadfast. (Luke 9:51)
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He who declares me righteous me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my mishpat · adversary·? Let him come near to me.
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. MP: Messiah is justified, no negative charges against him are valid. (Luke 23:2-4; Heb 8:33-34)
9
Behold, 'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] will help me! Who is he who will condemn me as guilty? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
10
Who among you fears Adonai , and sh'ma ·hears obeys· the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Adonai ’s name, and rely on his God.
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. MP: Trusting in Yahweh God also means to trust in his Servant Messiah. (John 5:23, 14:1, 15:24, 17:3; 1 John 2:23)
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b MP: Trusting in the servant sent brings light and direction from God. (John 11:9, 12:35-36, 12:46)
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Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: You will lie down in sorrow.