Isaiah 50:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis.

when. came. Messiah speaks.

no man. See John 1:11. Compare Jeremiah 5:1.Acts 13:46; Acts 18:6; Acts 28:28.

Is My hand shortened... ? Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 11:23). Compare Isaiah 59:1. See App-92.

redeem. Hebrew. padah. See note on Exodus 13:13.

I dry up the sea. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 14:21). App-92.

rivers. Plural of majesty: i.e. the great river, the Jordan. Reference to Pentateuch (Joshua 4:7; Joshua 4:18). App-92. Compare Psalms 107:33.

their fish stinketh. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 7:18; Exodus 7:21).

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Isaiah 50:2

2 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.