Holy Scripture
Isaiah 50:5
A church father on this verse
“(Chapter 50—Verse 4 and following) The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I may sustain with words the weary. He awakens me morning by morning, awakens my ear as a master. The Lord God has opened my ear; I do not resist, I do not turn back. I offered my body to the ones striking me, and my cheeks to those plu…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.
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3I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.
4The Lord even God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:
— Isaiah 50:5 —
6I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:
7but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,