Isaiah 50
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 50, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Thus saith the LORD, Where {is} the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors {is it} to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Isaiah 50:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore, when I came, {was there} no man? when I called, {was there} none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot 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 stinketh, because {there is} no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isaiah 50:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isaiah 50:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to {him that is} weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Isaiah 50:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
Isaiah 50:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Isaiah 50:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 50:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{He is} near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who {is} mine adversary? let him come near to me. {mine...: Heb. the master of my cause?}
Isaiah 50:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who {is} he {that} shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah 50:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who {is} among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh {in} darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Isaiah 50:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass {yourselves} about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks {that} ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 50:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.