Isaiah 50:5
Good News Translation
The LORD has given me understanding, and I have not rebelled or turned away from him.

New Revised Standard Version
The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward.

Contemporary English Version
he made me willing to listen and not rebel or run away.

New American Bible
The Lord GOD opened my ear; I did not refuse, did not turn away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.

Isaiah 48:8 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: . . .

Matthew 26:39 And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.

John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. For I do always the things that please him.

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.

Philippians 2:8 He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

Hebrews 5:8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Hebrews 10:5-9 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me. . . .

Context
The Servant's Obedience
4The 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. 5The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.6I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:39
And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.

John 8:29
And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. For I do always the things that please him.

John 14:31
But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.

Acts 26:19
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not incredulous to the heavenly vision.

Philippians 2:8
He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

Hebrews 5:8
And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Hebrews 10:7
Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:

Psalm 80:18
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

Isaiah 35:5
Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Isaiah 50:4
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