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The LORD says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions. See also: Deuteronomy 32:30 Jeremiah 3:8 Matthew 18:25Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t 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 of thirst. See also: Isaiah 59:1 Numbers 11:23 Isaiah 66:4I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.” See also: Revelation 6:12 Psalms 18:11-12 Exodus 10:21The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. See also: Luke 21:15 Jeremiah 1:9 Exodus 4:11-12The Lord GOD has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back. See also: John 14:31 Hebrews 5:8 Isaiah 35:5I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting. See also: Matthew 26:67 Mark 14:65 Mark 15:19For the Lord GOD will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed. See also: Hebrews 13:6 Ezekiel 3:8-9 John 16:33He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. See also: Romans 8:32-34 Revelation 12:10 Isaiah 41:1Behold, the Lord GOD 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. See also: Job 13:28 Hebrews 1:11-12 Isaiah 41:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in the LORD’s name, and rely on his God. See also: John 12:46 Micah 7:7-9 Isaiah 26:3-4Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow. See also: Jeremiah 17:5-7 Romans 1:21-22 Romans 10:3

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)6 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Isaiah 50:1

Ver. 1. Away. Such a one could not be received again, if she had taken another husband. Deut.

xxiv. 3. Some explain this of the captives. But God restored them to favour. It seems rather to relate to the reprobation (C.) of the synagogue, which will never again become the true Church, (H.) though many of Israel will be converted. Rom. xi. 25. --- Sold you, as a father might do. Ex.

xxi. 1. Mat. xviii. 15. S. Ambrose (Tob. viii.) inveighs against such cruel parents, as the Christian religion had not then entirely repressed this inhumanity. C. ---

God rejected the synagogue, not out of hard-heartedness or want, but because of her sins. W.

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Isaiah 50:2

Ver. 2. Hear. My spouse had gone after other lovers. The people refused to hear the prophets; and the priests were become as corrupt as the rest, when the city was taken by the Chaldees and by the Romans. C. --- Sea. Babylon. C. xxi.

H. --- I could work the same miracles, as I did when Israel came out of Egypt.

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Isaiah 50:4

Ver. 4. Weary. Isaias speaks in the name of Christ, whose words carried conviction and comfort along with them. Jo. vi. 69. and vii. 46. C. --- Wakeneth.

Lit. "lifteth up." Cynthius âurem---

Vellit. Ec. vi. --- Hear, or obey. H. --- Christ preached more powerfully than Isaias, and continues to do so by his pastors. S. Jer. W.

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Isaiah 50:6

Ver. 6. Spit. The greatest indignity. Job xxx. 10. Deut. xxv. 9. Yet this was the treatment of our Saviour. Lu. xviii. 31. Mat. xxvi. 67. C. --- "The great Grotius, (I wish he were great in explaining the prophets)" applies this to Jeremias.

Houbigant.

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Isaiah 50:7

Ver. 7. Rock. Christ heard the accusations of his enemies unmoved, as the had not been afraid to blame the conduct of the Pharisees.

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Isaiah 50:10

Ver. 10. Light. The faithful are exhorted to take courage, while the Romans will destroy the rebellious Jews, (v. 11. C.) and the wicked shall dwell in hell fire. M.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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