Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
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Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
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Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
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Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 50:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 13:28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
- Psalms 102:26 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
- Isaiah 41:10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Hebrews 1:11-12 They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does. You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”
- Psalms 39:11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”
- Isaiah 51:6-8 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished. “Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults. For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 50:9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me;…
Isa 50:9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Ver. 9. Behold, the Lord God will help me.] See Isa 50:7.
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Who is he that shall condemn me.] {a} If Libanius could say of his friend Basil (though of a different religion), Let but him praise me, and I care not who dispraiseth me; how much better might Christ, and may every good Christian say the same of God!
Lo, they shall all wax old as a garment.] The scribes and Pharisees (those old cankered carles) shall; for of them Jerome, Cyril, and others understand it. The Romans - according as they feared, and therefore crucified Christ {Joh 11:48} - came upon them, and took away both them and their nation.
The moth shall eat them up,] i.e., They shall be irrecoverably ruined, being once laid aside by God as an old wornout garment, which is made thereby food for moths. Thus it befell Pilate (saith Lyra here), banished by Tiberius; and thus it befell the priests, who were burned by Titus in the temple; who also added that it was fit that those which served in the temple should perish together with it.
{a} Kατα παντας εχω τα νικητηρια.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That shall condemn me; that dare attempt it, or…
That shall condemn me; that dare attempt it, or can justly do it.
They all, mine accusers and enemies,
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shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up: shall pine away in their iniquity, as God threatened, Lev 26:39; shall be cut off and consumed by a secret curse and judgment of God, which is compared to a
moth, Hos 5:12, whilst I shall survive and flourish, and the pleasure of God shall prosper in my hands, as is said, Isa 53:10.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Behold, the Lord God will help me,.... This is…
Behold, the Lord God will help me,.... This is repeated from Isa 50:7; see Gill on Isa 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 (c), 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 Rom 8:33,
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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.
(c) "quis ipse impium faciet me", Pagninus, Montanus; "impium vel praevaricatorem et iniquum faciet me", Vatablus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They - Mine accusers and enemies. The moth -…
They - Mine accusers and enemies. The moth - Shall be cut off and consumed by a secret curse.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Lord God will help me - (See Isa…
The Lord God will help me - (See Isa 50:7). In the Hebrew this is, ‘The Lord Jehovah,’ as it is in Isa 50:7 also, and these are among the places where our translators have improperly rendered the word יהוה yehovâh (Jehovah) by the word ‘God.’
Who is he that shall condemn me? - If Yahweh is my advocate and friend, my cause must be right. Similar language is used by the apostle Paul: ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’ Rom 8:31; and in Psa 118:6 :
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Jehovah is on my side; I will not fear:
What can man do unto me?
They all shall wax old - All my enemies shall pass away, as a garment is worn out and cast aside. The idea is, that the Messiah would survive all their attacks; his cause, his truth and his reputation would live, while all the power, the influence, the reputation of his adversaries, would vanish as a garment that is worn out and then thrown away. The same image respecting his enemies is used again in Isa 51:8.
The moth shall eat them up - The moth is a well known insect attached particularly to woolen clothes, and which soon consumes them (see the note at Job 4:19). In eastern countries, where wealth consisted much in changes of raiment, the depredations of the moth would be particularly to be feared, and hence, it is frequently referred to in the Bible. The sense here is, that the adversaries of the Messiah would be wholly destroyed.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Compare "deal," or "proper," Isa 52:13, Margin; Isa 53:10;…
(Compare "deal," or "proper," Isa 52:13, Margin; Isa 53:10; Psa 118:6; Jer 23:5).
as a garment-- (Isa 51:6, Isa 51:8; Psa 102:26). A leading constituent of wealth in the East is change of raiment, which is always liable to the inroads of the moth; hence the frequency of the image in Scripture.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. who is he that shall condemn me?] Comp.…
9. who is he that shall condemn me?] Comp. Rom_8:33 f.
wax old (better, be worn out) as a garment; the moth &c.] Common images of gradual but inevitable destruction (cf. ch. Isa_51:6; Isa_51:8; Psa_39:11; Psa_102:26; Job_13:28 &c.).
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Two striking parallels to the latter part of this discourse occur in the Book of Jeremiah. See ch. Jer_17:17 f.; “Thou art my refuge in the day of evil. Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed … bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction”: and Jer_20:7; Jer_20:11 ff.: “I am become a laughingstock all the day, every one mocketh me.…” “But the Lord is with me as a mighty one and a terrible; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed” &c. Cf. also Jer_22:6-21.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) They all shall wax old as a garment.—An…
(9) They all shall wax old as a garment.—An echo of Job_13:28; Psa_102:26; reproduced in Isa_51:6.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 50:9 Who will declare me guilty? The implied answer…
50:9 Who will declare me guilty? The implied answer to this rhetorical question is, “No one!” This answer foreshadows the New Testament understanding of justification (see Rom 8:31-35).
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