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Selected Verse: Isaiah 50:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 50:7 |
Strong Concordance |
For the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] will help [05826] me; therefore shall I not be confounded [03637]: therefore have I set [07760] my face [06440] like a flint [02496], and I know [03045] that I shall not be ashamed [0954]. |
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King James |
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. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Sample of His not being "discouraged" (Isa 42:4; Isa 49:5).
set . . . face like . . . flint--set Myself resolutely, not to be daunted from My work of love by shame or suffering (Eze 3:8-9). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For the Lord God will help me - That is, he will sustain me amidst all these expressions of contempt and scorn.
Shall I not be confounded - Hebrew, 'I shall not be ashamed;' that is, I will bear all this with the assurance of his favor and protection, and I will not blush to be thus treated in a cause so glorious, and which must finally triumph and prevail.
Therefore have I set my face like a flint - To harden the face, the brow, the forehead, might be used either in a bad or a good sense - in the former as denoting shamelessness or haughtiness (see the note at Isa 48:4); in the latter denoting courage, firmness, resolution. It is used in this sense here; and it means that the Messiah would be firm and resolute amidst all the contempt and scorn which he would meet, and would not shrink from any kind or degree of suffering which should be necessary to accomplish the great work in which he was engaged. A similar expression occurs in Eze 3:8-9 : 'Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. As an adamant, harder than a flint, have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks.' |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| But no shame makes him faint-hearted; he trusts in Him who hath called him, and looks to the end. "But the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not suffered myself to be overcome by mockery: therefore did I make my face like the flint, and knew that I should not be put to shame." The ו introduces the thought with which his soul was filled amidst all his sufferings. In נכלמתּי לא he affirms, that he did not suffer himself to be inwardly overcome and overpowered by kelimmâh. The consciousness of his high calling remained undisturbed; he was never ashamed of that, nor did he turn away from it. The two על־כּן stand side by side upon the same line. He made his face kachallâmı̄sh (from châlam, related to gâlam in Isa 49:21, with the substantive termination ı̄sh: see Jeshurun, p. 229), i.e., he made it as unfelling as a flint-stone to the attacks of his foes (cf., Eze 3:8-9). The lxx renders this ἔθηκα τὸ πρόσωπον μου ὡς στερεὰν πέτραν; but ἐστήριξα τὸ πρός, which is the rendering given to פני שׂים in Jer 21:10, would have been just the proper rendering here (see Luk 9:51). In "holy hardness of endurance," as Stier says, he turned his face to his antagonists, without being subdued or frightened away, and was well assured that He whose cause he represented would never leave him in the lurch. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Therefore have I set my face like a flint - The Prophet Ezekiel, Eze 2:8, Eze 2:9, has expressed this with great force in his bold and vehement manner:
"Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces,
And thy forehead strong against their foreheads:
As an adamant, harder than a rock, have I made thy forehead;
Fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks,
Though they be a rebellious house." |
8 Behold, I have made [05414] thy face [06440] strong [02389] against [05980] their faces [06440], and thy forehead [04696] strong [02389] against [05980] their foreheads [04696].
9 As an adamant [08068] harder [02389] than flint [06864] have I made [05414] thy forehead [04696]: fear [03372] them not, neither be dismayed [02865] at their looks [06440], though they be a rebellious [04805] house [01004].
5 And now, saith [0559] the LORD [03068] that formed [03335] me from the womb [0990] to be his servant [05650], to bring [07725] Jacob [03290] again [07725] to him, Though Israel [03478] be not gathered [0622], yet shall I be glorious [03513] in the eyes [05869] of the LORD [03068], and my God [0430] shall be my strength [05797].
4 He shall not fail [03543] nor be discouraged [07533], till he have set [07760] judgment [04941] in the earth [0776]: and the isles [0339] shall wait [03176] for his law [08451].
8 Behold, I have made [05414] thy face [06440] strong [02389] against [05980] their faces [06440], and thy forehead [04696] strong [02389] against [05980] their foreheads [04696].
9 As an adamant [08068] harder [02389] than flint [06864] have I made [05414] thy forehead [04696]: fear [03372] them not, neither be dismayed [02865] at their looks [06440], though they be a rebellious [04805] house [01004].
4 Because I knew [01847] that thou art obstinate [07186], and thy neck [06203] is an iron [01270] sinew [01517], and thy brow [04696] brass [05154];
51 And [1161] it came to pass [1096], when [1722] the time [2250] was come [4845] that he [846] should be received up [354], [2532] he [846] stedfastly set [4741] his [846] face [4383] to go [4198] to [1519] Jerusalem [2419],
10 For I have set [07760] my face [06440] against this city [05892] for evil [07451], and not for good [02896], saith [05002] the LORD [03068]: it shall be given [05414] into the hand [03027] of the king [04428] of Babylon [0894], and he shall burn [08313] it with fire [0784].
8 Behold, I have made [05414] thy face [06440] strong [02389] against [05980] their faces [06440], and thy forehead [04696] strong [02389] against [05980] their foreheads [04696].
9 As an adamant [08068] harder [02389] than flint [06864] have I made [05414] thy forehead [04696]: fear [03372] them not, neither be dismayed [02865] at their looks [06440], though they be a rebellious [04805] house [01004].
21 Then shalt thou say [0559] in thine heart [03824], Who hath begotten [03205] me these, seeing I have lost my children [07921], and am desolate [01565], a captive [01540], and removing to and fro [05493]? and who hath brought up [01431] these? Behold, I was left [07604] alone; these, where [0375] had they been?
9 And when I looked [07200], behold, an hand [03027] was sent [07971] unto me; and, lo, a roll [04039] of a book [05612] was therein;
8 But thou, son [01121] of man [0120], hear [08085] what I say [01696] unto thee; Be not [01961] thou rebellious [04805] like that rebellious [04805] house [01004]: open [06475] thy mouth [06310], and eat [0398] that I give [05414] thee.