Isaiah 50

Isaiah 50
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book Book of Isaiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 23
Category Nevi'im

Isaiah 50 is the fiftieth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a one of the Books of the Prophets.[1][2] Chapters 40-55 are known as "Deutero-Isaiah" and date from the time of the Israelites' exile in Babylon.[3] This chapter includes the third of the songs of the "Suffering Servant". Methodist founder John Wesley links this chapter with chapter 51: "the scope of this and the next chapter is to vindicate God's justice and to convince the (exiled) Jews that they were the causes of their own calamities".[4]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 3

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.[6]

Similarly in Revelation 6:12:

The sun became black as sackcloth of hair.

Third servant song

The servant songs were first identified by Bernhard Duhm in his 1892 Commentary on Isaiah. The songs are four poems taken from the Book of Isaiah written about a certain "servant of YHWH". God calls the servant to lead the nations, but the servant is horribly repressed. In the end, he is rewarded. Those four poems are:

  1. Isaiah 42:1-9
  2. Isaiah 49:1-12
  3. Isaiah 50:4-9
  4. Isaiah 52-53

The third of the "servant songs" begins at Isaiah 50:4, continuing through 50:11. The Jerusalem Bible divides it into two sections:

  • Isaiah 50:4-9: The servant speaks
  • Isaiah 50:10-11: Exhortation to follow the servant.[7]

This song has a darker yet more confident tone than the others. Although the song gives a first-person description of how the Servant was beaten and abused, here the Servant is described both as teacher and learner who follows the path God places him on without pulling back. Echoing the words of the first song, "a bruised reed he will not break",[8] he sustains the weary with a word. His vindication is left in God's hands.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  3. ↑ Young, Edward J., The Autorship of Isaiah (sic), accessed 29 July 2018
  4. ↑ Wesley, J., Wesley's Notes on Isaiah 50, accessed 24 August 2018
  5. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Isaiah 42:3
  7. ↑ Jerusalem Bible (1966), Isaiah 50:4-11
  8. ↑ Isaiah 42:3
  9. ↑ Isaiah 50:4-19

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Christian

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