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Isaiah 50:2 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 50 · verse 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.Isaiah 50:2 · King James Version
Isaiah 50:2 in context
1Thus 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.
2Wherefore, 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.
3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4The 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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- shortenedqâtsarto dock offH7114 →
- delivernâtsalto snatch away, whether in a good or a bad senseH5337 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- answerʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- redeempᵉdûwthdistinctionH6304 →
- rebukegᵉʻârâha chidingH1606 →
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Those who have professed to be the people of God, and yet seem to be dealt severely with, are apt to complain of God, and to lay the fault upon him, as if he had been hard with them. But, in answer to their murmurings, we have here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-3