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Isaiah 50

1 The Jewes forsaken for a time. 2 Yet the power of God is not diminished. 5 Christ’s obedience and victory.
1.Thus saith the Lord, Where is that abill of your mother’s divorcement, bwhom I have cast off? or who is the creditor cto whom I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities are ye sold, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken.
2.Wherefore dcame I, and there was no man? I called, and none answered: is mine hand so eshortened, that it can not help? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the Sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for want of water, and dyeth for thirst.
3.I cloth the heavens with darkness, and make a fsack their covering.
4.The Lord God hath given gme a tongue of the learned, that I should know to minister a word in time to him that is hweary: he will raise me up in the morning: in the morning he will waken mine ear to hear, ias the learned.
5.The Lord God hath opened mine ear and I was not rebellious, neither turned I back.
6.I gave my back unto the ksmiters, and my cheeks to the nippers: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7.For the Lord God will help me, therefore shal I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shal not be ashamed.
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 can condemn me? lo, they shal wax old as a garment: the moth shal eat them up.
10.lWho is among you that feareth the Lord? let him hear the voice of his servant · he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lord, & stay upon his God.
11.Behold, all you kindle ma fire, and are compassed about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shal ye have of mine hand: ye shal lie down in sorrow.

Notes

1-a.
Meaning, that he had not forsaken her, but through her own occasion, as Hosea 2.2.
1-b.
Which should declare, that I have cut her off, meaning, that they could show none.
1-c.
Signifying that he sold them not for any debt or poverty, but that they sold themselves to sinners to buy their own lusts, and pleasures.
2-d.
He came by his Prophets and ministers, but they would not believe their doctrine and convert.
2-e.
Am I not as able to help you, as I have helped your fathers of old, when I dryed up the red Sea, and killed the fish in the rivers, and also afterward in Jordan?
3-f.
As I did in Egypt in token of my displeasure, Ex. 10.21.
4-g.
The Prophet does represent here the person and charge of them that are justly called to the ministry of God’s word.
4-h.
To him that is oppressed by affliction and misery.
4-i.
As they that are taught, and made mete by him.
6-k.
I did not shrink from God for any persecution or calamity. Whereby he shows, that the true ministers of God can look for none other recompense of the wicked but after this sort & also what is their comfort.
10-l.
Showing that it is a rare thing that any should obey aright God’s true ministers, though they labour to bring them from hell to heaven.
11-m.
You have sought consolation by your own devises, and have refused the light, and consolation, which God has offered therefore you shall remain in sorrow, and not be comforted.