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Scott's Reference Library
Isaiah 50:4 through Isaiah 50:9 (NIV)
4 The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue,
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.
5 The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears,
and I have not been rebellious;
I have not drawn back.
6 I offered my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from mocking and spitting.
7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me,
I will not be disgraced.
Therefore have I set my face like flint,
and I know I will not be put to shame.
8 He who vindicates me is near.
Who then will bring charges against me?
Let us face each other!
Who is my accuser?
Let him confront me!
9 It is the Sovereign LORD who helps me.
Who is he that will condemn me?
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 4-9
As Jesus was God and man in one person, we find him sometimes speaking, or
spoken of, as the Lord God; at other times, as man and the servant of Jehovah.
He was to declare the truths which comfort the broken, contrite heart, those
weary of sin, harassed with afflictions. And as the Holy Spirit was upon him,
that he might speak as never man spake; so the same Divine influence daily
wakened him to pray, to preach the gospel, and to receive and deliver the whole
will of the Father. The Father justified the Son when he accepted the
satisfaction he made for the sin of man. Christ speaks in the name of all
believers. Who dares to be an enemy to those unto whom he is a Friend? or who
will contend with those whom he is an Advocate? Thus St. Paul applies it, Romans
8:33.