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Isaiah 50:5

And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   The Topic Concordance - Hearing;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Servants;   Sorrow;   Speech/communication;   Suffering;   Teaching;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Servant of the lord;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Awl;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Agony;   Slave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ear;   Isaiah;   Israel, History of;   Servant of the Lord, the;   Slave/servant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ephphatha;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   Slave, Slavery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Ephphatha;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Isaiah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaiah;   Mediation;   Messiah;   Revelation;   Servant of Yahweh (the Lord);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Messiah;   Servant of God;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord God has opened my ear,and I was not rebellious;I did not turn back.
Hebrew Names Version
The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
King James Version
The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
English Standard Version
The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.
New American Standard Bible
The Lord GOD has opened My ear, And I was not disobedient, Nor did I turn back.
New Century Version
The Lord God helps me learn, and I have not turned against him nor stopped following him.
Amplified Bible
The Lord GOD has opened My ear, And I have not been rebellious Nor have I turned back.
World English Bible
The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.
Legacy Standard Bible
Lord Yahweh has opened My ear;And I did not rebelNor did I turn back.
Berean Standard Bible
The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
Contemporary English Version
he made me willing to listen and not rebel or run away.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai Elohim has opened my ear, and I neither rebelled nor turned away.
Darby Translation
The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not away back.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord God helps me learn, and I have not turned against him. I will not stop following him.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD God has opened my ears, and I have not turned back to the evil way, neither have I been rebellious.
Good News Translation
The Lord has given me understanding, and I have not rebelled or turned away from him.
Lexham English Bible
The Lord Yahweh has opened an ear for me, and I, I was not rebellious. I did not turn backwards;
Literal Translation
The Lord Jehovah has opened My ear and I did not rebel; I did not turn away backwards.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE God hath opened myne eare, therfore ca I not saye naye, ner wt drawe myself,
American Standard Version
The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord God hath opened mine eare, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde God hath opened myne eare, and I haue not gaynesayde nor withdrawen my selfe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.
English Revised Version
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God openede an eere to me; forsothe Y ayenseie not, Y yede not abak.
Update Bible Version
The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
Webster's Bible Translation
The Lord GOD opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
New English Translation
The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.
New King James Version
The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away.
New Living Translation
The Sovereign Lord has spoken to me, and I have listened. I have not rebelled or turned away.
New Life Bible
The Lord God has opened My ear, and I obeyed Him. I did not turn back.
New Revised Standard
The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My Lord, Yahweh, opened mine ear, And, I, was not rebellious, - Away, turned I not:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.
Revised Standard Version
The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward.
Young's Literal Translation
The Lord Jehovah opened for me the ear, And I rebelled not -- backward I moved not.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not disobedient Nor did I turn back.

Contextual Overview

4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced: 5 And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him. 6 I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame. 7 For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right. 8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me. 9 See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 48:8, Psalms 40:6-8, Matthew 26:39, John 8:29, John 14:31, John 15:10, Philippians 2:8, Hebrews 5:8, Hebrews 10:5-9

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:20 - put it upon the tip 1 Samuel 20:2 - show it me 1 Kings 22:24 - smote Micaiah 2 Chronicles 18:23 - Zedekiah Job 33:16 - openeth Job 36:10 - openeth Ecclesiastes 2:1 - I will Lamentations 1:1 - sit Ezekiel 2:8 - Be Matthew 26:24 - Son of man goeth Luke 9:51 - he stedfastly John 18:22 - struck Acts 16:14 - whose Acts 26:19 - I was not Philippians 2:7 - made 1 Timothy 3:16 - justified

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 50:21
So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.
Genesis 50:22
Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.
Genesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 4:22
But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage.
1 Samuel 14:43
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Give me an account of what you have done. And Jonathan gave him the story and said, Certainly I took a little honey on the end of my rod; and now death is to be my fate.
2 Chronicles 16:14
And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.
Job 30:23
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Psalms 79:3
Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord God hath opened mine ear,.... To hear most freely, and receive most fully, what is said by him, and to observe and do it: the allusion seems to be to the servant that had his ears bored, being willing to serve his master for ever, Exodus 21:5 which phrase of boring or opening the ear is used of Christ, Psalms 40:6. It is expressive of his voluntary obedience, as Mediator, to his divine Father, engaging in, and performing with the greatest readiness and cheerfulness, the great work of man's redemption and salvation.

And I was not rebellious; not to his earthly parents, to whom he was subject; nor to civil magistrates, to whom he paid tribute; nor to God, he always did the things that pleased him: he was obedient to the precepts of the moral law, and to the penalty of it, death itself, and readily submitted to the will of God in suffering for his people; which obedience of his was entirely free and voluntary, full, complete, and perfect, done in the room and stead of his people; is the measure of their righteousness, and by which they become righteous; is well pleasing to God, and infinitely preferable to the obedience of men and angels:

neither turned away back; he did not decline the work proposed to him, but readily engaged in it; he never stopped in it, or desisted from it, until he had finished it; he did not hesitate about it, as Moses and Jeremy; or flee from it, as Jonah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord God hath opened mine ear - This is another expression denoting that he was attentive to the import of the divine commission (see Psalms 40:6).

And I was not rebellious - I willingly undertook the task of communicating the divine will to mankind. The statement here is in accordance with all that is said of the Messiah, that he was willing to come and do the will of God, and that whatever trials the work involved he was prepared to meet them (see Psalms 40:6-8; compare Hebrews 10:4-10).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 50:5. Neither turned away back - "Neither did I withdraw myself backward"] Eleven MSS. and the oldest edition prefix the conjunction ו vau; and so also the Septuagint and Syriac.


 
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