Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 50:2-3

"Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering." — Isaiah 50:2-3 (ASV)

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinks because there is no water, and dies for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

What a glorious God this is who says that he has not divorced his people!

How mighty he is; indeed, almighty! All power is in his hands.

Notice who he is, for he goes on to describe himself: –