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For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
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Strength from the Father
Commentators agree that the speaker, the Messiah, draws His strength directly from God the Father. This reliance is not a sign of weakness but a demonstration of perfect trust and unity within the Trinity to accomplish the work of salvation. His confidence in God's help is what allows Him to face immense suffering without being defeated.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the Lord God will help me - That is, he will sustain me amidst all these expressions of contempt and scorn.
Shall…
19th Century
Anglican
The Lord God will help me.—That one support gives to the suffering Servant an indomitable strength. ([Reference Ezekiel 3…
Baptist
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD wil…
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16th Century
Protestant
For the Lord Jehovah will help me. The Prophet declares from where such great courage comes—courage that he and the other servants of God …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the Lord God will help me As he promised he would, and did, (Psalms 89:21) (Isaiah 49:8)…
As Jesus was God and man in one person, we find Him sometimes speaking, or spoken of, as the Lord God; at other times, as man and the servant of Je…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Thus says the Lord: What is this... Here the prophet begins to address the obstacles to Israel's liberation. He proceeds in two …
