1 Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away. 2 Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst. 3 I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering. 4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master. 5 The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back. 6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. 7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. 8 He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me. 9 Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up. 10 Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God. 11 Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with dames, walk in the light of your fire, and in the dames which you have kindled: this is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in sorrows.
Isaiah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Isaiah 50 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 32:30; Jeremiah 3:8; Matthew 18:25; 2 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:5
- 2 Isaiah 59:1; Isaiah 66:4; Numbers 11:23; Joshua 3:16; Genesis 18:14
- 3 Revelation 6:12; Psalm 18:11–12; Exodus 10:21; Matthew 27:45
- 4 Luke 21:15; Jeremiah 1:9; John 7:15–17; Exodus 4:11–12; Proverbs 25:11
- 5 John 14:31; Hebrews 5:8; Philippians 2:8; Isaiah 35:5; John 8:29
- 6 Matthew 26:67; Mark 14:65; Mark 15:19; Luke 22:63–64; Matthew 27:30
- 7 Hebrews 13:6; Ezekiel 3:8–9; John 16:33; Isaiah 42:1; Romans 1:16
- 8 Romans 8:32–34; Revelation 12:10; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 41:21; Isaiah 43:26
- 9 Job 13:28; Hebrews 1:11–12; Psalm 102:26; Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 39:11
- 10 John 12:46; Isaiah 26:3–4; Micah 7:7–9; John 8:12; Psalm 23:4
- 11 Jeremiah 17:5–7; Romans 1:21–22; John 8:24; Romans 10:3; Matthew 15:6–8
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… be shaken, as He Himself declares, "There shall be a great earthquake, such as has not been from the beginning." And again, when one says, "Whosoever is judged, let him stand opposite; and whosoever is justified, let him draw near to the servant of God;" and, "Woe unto you, for ye shall wax old as doth a garment, and the …
Ye have heard, while the prophet was being read, how He "did not turn away His back from the smiters, and His face from the spittings of men," how "He turned not His cheek from their hands;" wherefore chose He to suffer all these things, but that He might console the suffering?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… the Holy Ghost writes before, in the person of Christ, who says, (for He who then spake these things, was afterward Himself an actor in them,) I gave My back to the scourges; (for Pilate, when he had scourged Him, delivered Him to be crucified;) and My cheeks to smitings; and My face I turned not away from the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)