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Isaiah 50

Isaiah 50. ISAIAH. CH 50 690 BC.

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Isaiah 50

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  1. Isaiah 50

  2. ISAIAH CH 50 690 BC

  3. Isaiah 50:1 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. • In Jeremiah 3:14, God says to Israel, “I am married to you” (as He pleads with them to stop backsliding). • This is all very subtle: • In Isaiah 50:1, there is a reference to a bill of divorcement, but it is rhetorical. God is saying, “Where is it?” The answer is “nowhere”, same as God’s “creditors”, for He has none of that, either! • In Jeremiah 3:14, God speaks of a divorce from Israel, the nation, not the people. In that series of verses, and in Hosea, God tells the people to return to him. You don’t say that when divorce has actually happened. • Besides, God says in Malachi that He hates divorce. • So, in this first verse, the rhetorical question, “Where is…?”, demands the answer, “It doesn’t exist.” • God says here, instead, that any separation is of their own making. “I’m God, I don’t change; I’m still here. You have separated yourselves from God, and you have sold yourselves to foreign nations for your own exile.” Interesting.

  4. Remember our previous lesson: Isaiah 49 25 But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. Mess with Israel, mess with God, who said to Abraham and to Jacob from the beginning of the nation: “I will bless them that bless you, and curse him who curses you.” How many different ways can God say it? Zechariah 2:5 For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. 6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. 7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. When will the haters ever learn their lesson? When dogs stop biting porcupines. And God is never “done” with Israel.

  5. Isaiah 50 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. Without spiritual ears, it would be easy to mistake verse 1 for a pronouncement of God’s divorcing, or casting Israel aside. But here we get the straight of it: God asked those rhetorical questions about “where’s the bill of divorcement; and where is a creditor I can sell you to?” God hates divorce, so He doesn’t do it; and He owes nobody anything, so there is no creditor. The discerning reader knows this. The next rhetorical questions answer what must be in the reader’s mind: “Well, then, if Israel has messed up so badly, how can the relationship with God ever be re-established on good terms?” To those questions, He responds that He is all-powerful; that He can make a way where no one else can – where there seems to be no way. Isaiah 59:1, 2, 16, 20, helps us to understand what God is hinting at here: though Israel has been a very bad actor, God has a remedy in store. And when Christ comes, we see how God’s redemptive character is brought to bear.

  6. Isaiah 50 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. In adding to God’s expression of His omnipotence, He also hints at the day of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross! 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. Here again, the layers of meaning. In one sense, the statement is about Isaiah, and why he is able to prophesy like he does. But mainly, it is about Jesus Christ. See how this one played out in His life: Luke 2:47 and all that heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. John 7:15 And the Jews marveled, saying, How knows this man letters, having never learned? Mark 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. And, as the Bible says here more clearly than any other passage, it this was Jesus’ lifestyle, it ought to be ours, too. That is how we, too, can have a word in season, and an answer for every man!

  7. Morning by morning, that’s how Jesus learned; so I take my cues from Him. Here is a copy of one side of one of my Bible reading cards. Messy, huh? If I hear something new and astonishing in my readings and prayers, I write it down in my notebook. I also have an easy way to show, for future reference, if I was out of town for a spell. Makes sense only to me.

  8. Isaiah 50 5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. In Hebrews 5:7-8, it says He learned obedience through the things which He suffered. In Philippians 2:8, it says He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 6 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. We know from the Gospels that Jesus was whipped, cursed, mocked and spat upon; but here is the only place where we learn that they pulled His beard out. He was probably so bloody and disfigured by the time His disciples saw Him close enough to tell, there was no way to notice this aspect of His suffering. Thank You, Lord, for enduring all that for us.

  9. Isaiah 50 7 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. That is how He was always able to confound His interrogators; and why He told the disciples (and us) not to worry about what we would say – for He would give us the words in the time of need; and that the Spirit would help our infirmities, even in prayer. In Daniel 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: These are our examples, to seek the Lord and find help in time of need. Psalm 25:Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.4Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.6Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

  10. Isaiah 50 8 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. 9 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. Here we have a foretaste of the much-beloved promises contained in the NT in Romans 8: 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose…. …31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  11. Isaiah 50 10 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. This blends with a great deal of Scripture to make the point that to have knowledge, wisdom and understanding (i.e., “light”, and “enlightenment”) is to know God, and vice-versa… Job 28 28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. Psalm 110:10 The fearoftheLord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. Proverbs 1:10 The fearoftheLord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction… …29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: Proverbs 9:10 The fearoftheLord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding… …27 The fearoftheLordprolongethdays… Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. 27The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. Isaiah 55: 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

  12. Isaiah 50 11 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. The point here is to contrast verse 10 with verse 11. God tells us in verse 10 that all 3 levels of cognition and truth: 1) knowledge (how things really are), 2) wisdom (what to do about it) and 3) understanding (why things are that way) – are contained in God, and that knowing and revering Him is the way to obtain and recognize those truths.

  13. Isaiah 50 11 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. Conversely, God tells us that in man’s way, rebellion, there are schemes that seem right, seem to produce enlightenment; but are really only sparks. Sparks might look like stars in the darkness, but they really are not. They are just sparks, and like everything else that is man-made, they are short-lived and feeble. Watch Dr. Schaffer on Humanism – it looks good, but ends in despair. Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, norear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Isaiah 44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. 18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

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