Isaiah 50:4

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.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 50:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord God hath given me - This verse commences a new subject, and the deliverer is directly introduced as himself speaking. The reasons why th...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The Lord GOD hath given (g) me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] (h) weary: he awakeneth m...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Confidence of the Servant in Yahweh (the third Servant Song). Here, as in Isaiah 49:1-6 , the Servant is the speaker. Yahweh has given me the...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

that. should know, &c. He spake none other words than those given Him by the Father. Compare the seven times this was asserted by Messiah ( Joh...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. The Lord Jehovah. After having twice convicted them of guilt, he adds a consolation in his usual manner; for when the Lord covers us with...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Lord God hath given me, &c.— The second discourse of the fifth part of this book extends to the 17th verse of the following chapter. It is...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. The children of Zion ( Isaiah 49:20-21 ) are addressed. Their servitude is not irrevocable; Jehovah has not formally repudiated Zion ( Deuterono...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Servant of Jehovah is here the speaker (as in Isaiah 49:1 ). He is taught by Jehovah, receiving the divine message each morning. To speak , et...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Lord God... — A new section begins in the form of an abruptly introduced soliloquy. As in Isaiah 49:4 , the speaker is the Servant of Jehovah,...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XIX PROPHET AND MARTYR Isaiah 49:1-9 ; Isaiah 50:4-11 THE second great passage upon the Servant of the Lord is Isaiah 49:1-9 , and t...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Help for Those Who Trust in Him Isaiah 50:1-11 It is impossible for God to put away the soul that clings to Him in penitence and faith. Heaven...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proceeding, Jehovah challenges the people to prove their assertion that they have been forsaken by producing the writing in which God has divorced Hi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I should think it an unnecessary service to point out whom this account refers to. Everything here spoken is so directly descriptive of the person of...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned ,.... These are not the words of the prophet, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and others think; though wh...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord God hath given me , &c. The second discourse of the fifth part of Isaiah's prophecies, according to Vitringa, begins here, and is conti...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Work and Sufferings of the Messiah. B. C. 706....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God having asserted his own power, to show the groundlessness of the infidelity of the Jews, he proceeds to show what excellent and effectual means h...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

But There is One who Will Answer, the Servant of Yahweh ( Isaiah 50:4-9 ). But then there is an answer. There is a man who speaks up answers, but...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

SINFUL ISRAEL SELF-RUINED Isaiah 50:1-3 . Thus saith the Lord, Where is the hill, &c. Those who have professed to be the people of God, and...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

OUR SAVIOUR’S QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT OF HIS WORK Isaiah 50:4-9 . The Lord hath given me the tongue, &c. We suppose...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 50:2-4 These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. They place before our thoughts:...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 50:4 Weariness comes to man through various channels and from many sources. We have many doors in our nature, and at every one of these wea...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 50:1 . Thus saith the LORD, There is always something weighty coming when you have this preface. If God speaks, we ought to hear with reve...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This chapter might well have been written by our Lord Jesus Christ himself at the time when he was upon the earth. Isaiah 50:1 . Thus saith the LO...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 50:1 . Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? Sometimes, the headings to the Chapter s...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 50:1 . Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement. That is, of Jerusalem, gone over to the worship of Baal. God did not divorce the syn...
The Biblical Illustrator

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? The Mediator: Divine and human These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God an...
The Biblical Illustrator

The Lord God hath given Me the tongue of the learned The Lord’s servant made perfect through sufferings In Isaiah 50:4-9 the servant is again...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter seems to be made up of short fragments, which the collector, or collectors, of Isaiah's writings regarded as too preciou...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Defection of Israel Atoned for by the Servant of Jehovah. The opening of this chapter continues the picture of the Lord and His Church, repres...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord God hath given Me the tongue of the learned, one versed in the art of the orator, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 4:11 ; Exodus 4:12 ; Isaiah 57:15-19 ; Jeremiah 1:9 ; John 7:15-17 ; John 7:46 ; Luke 21:15 ; Luke 4:22 ; Matthew 11:28 ; Matthew 13...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Given me — This and the following passages may be in some sort understood of the prophet Isaiah, but they are far more evidently and eminently veri...

⁴ 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.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 50:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 50:4