Isaiah 50:9

9 Look! It is the Lord God who helps me. So who can prove me guilty? Look! All those who try will become useless like old clothes; moths will eat them.

Isaiah 50:9 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 50:9

Behold, the Lord God will help me
This is repeated from Isa 50:7, (See Gill on Isaiah 50:7); to show the certainty of it, the strength of his faith in it, and to discourage his enemies: who is he that shall condemn me?
make me out a wicked person F3, prove me guilty, and pass sentence upon me, when thus acquitted and justified by the Lord God? The Apostle Paul seems to have some reference to this passage in ( Romans 8:33 Romans 8:34 ) , lo, they all shall waste old as doth a garment;
his enemies, those that accused him, the Scribes, Pharisees, and chief priests; and those that condemned him, the Jewish sanhedrim, and the Roman governor: the moth shall eat them up;
they shall be like a worn out or motheaten garment, that can never be used more. The phrases denote how secret, insensible, and irrecoverable, their ruin should be, both in their civil and church state, all being abolished and done away.


FOOTNOTES:

F3 (yneyvry awh ym) "quis ipse impium faciet me", Pagninus, Montanus; "impium vel praevaricatorem et iniquum faciet me", Vatablus.

Isaiah 50:9 In-Context

7 The Lord God helps me, so I will not be ashamed. I will be determined, and I know I will not be disgraced.
8 He shows that I am innocent, and he is close to me. So who can accuse me? If there is someone, let us go to court together. If someone wants to prove I have done wrong, he should come and tell me.
9 Look! It is the Lord God who helps me. So who can prove me guilty? Look! All those who try will become useless like old clothes; moths will eat them.
10 Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servant? That person may walk in the dark and have no light. and depend on his God.
11 But instead, some of you want to light your own fires and make your own light. So, go, walk in the light of your fires, and trust your own light to guide you. But this is what you will receive from me: You will lie down in a place of pain.
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