Isaiah 50:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord God has given me a trained tongue, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens, wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[The Servant of God says] The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple and of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as a disciple [as one who is taught].

American Standard Version (1901)

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

Common English Bible

The LORD God gave me an educated tongue to know how to respond to the weary with a word that will awaken them in the morning. God awakens my ear in the morning to listen, as educated people do.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I would know how to uphold with a word, one who has weakened. He rises in the morning, he rises to my ear in the morning, so that I may heed him like a teacher.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary. He wakeneth in the morning: in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Isaiah 50:4 Cross References

Job 4:4

Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

Psalm 119:147

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I put my hope in your words.

Psalm 143:8

Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Psalm 40:7

Then I said, “Here I am; in the scroll of the book it is written of me.

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Psalm 5:3

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case to you and watch.

Psalm 88:13

But I, O Lord, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Proverbs 12:25

Anxiety weighs down the human heart, but a good word cheers it up.

Proverbs 15:23

To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is!

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Isaiah 28:19

As often as it passes through, it will take you, for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night, and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.”

Isaiah 28:9

“Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast?

Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be opened;

Isaiah 40:29

He gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?

Isaiah 54:13

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the prosperity of your children.

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, “Now I have put my words in your mouth.

Jeremiah 31:25

I will satisfy the weary, and all who are faint I will replenish.

Ezekiel 46:13

“You shall provide a lamb, a yearling, without blemish, for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 13:54

He came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these deeds of power?

Matthew 22:46

No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.

Luke 4:22

All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

John 7:46

The police answered, “Never has anyone spoken like this!”

Deuteronomy 18:17

Then the Lord replied to me, ‘They are right in what they have said.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.