1 Thus sayeth the Lord, Where is that bill of your mothers diuorcement, whome I haue cast off? or who is the creditour to whome I solde you? Beholde, for your iniquities are yee solde, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken. 2 Wherefore came I, and there was no man? I called, and none answered: is mine hand so shortened, that it cannot helpe? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the Sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for want of water, and dieth for thirst. 3 I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering. 4 The Lord God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned. 5 The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe. 6 I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be ashamed. 8 Hee is neere that iustifieth mee: who will contend with me? Let vs stande together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me. 9 Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp. 10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord? let him heare the voyce of his seruant: hee that walketh in darkenesse, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and staye vpon his God. 11 Beholde, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed about with sparkes: walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall ye haue of mine hand: ye shall lye downe in sorowe.
Isaiah 50 Geneva Bible (1599)
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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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… 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)