4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? …
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? …
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-9)Our Lord Jesus, having proved himself able to save, here shows himself as willing as he is able to save, here shows himself as willing as he is able. We suppose the prophet Isaiah to say something of himself in these verses, engaging and encouraging himself to go on in his work as a prophet, notwithstanding the many hardships he met with, not doubting but that God would stand by him and strengthen…
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