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Isaiah 50:2

Isaiah 50:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? Such being the condition of things; Judah having rejected me, not I them—why, "when I came" and announced deliverance from Babylon, was there no response? Why did no champion appear?

Is it that my power was doubted? that it was feared my hand was shortened, so that it could not redeem or deliver? But I am he who has power with his rebuke to dry up the sea (), to make rivers a wilderness (; , ); in fact, to change the course of nature as seemeth him good, and accomplish his will against all obstacles.

Is my hand shortened? i.e. "is my power less than it was?" Can any one suppose this? Surely what I have once done I can do again. If I delivered from Egypt, I can redeem from Babylon. Their fish stinketh (comp.

). But the object is rather to assert an absolute control over nature than to take the thoughts of the hearers back to any special occasions when control was exercised.

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