Category: Isaiah Servant songs
Servant song 3 Isaiah 50:6-10
ESV I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. 7 But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced;therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.8 He who vindicates me […]
Servant song 1 Isaiah 42:1-5
Here is an example of how to hang a passage from the bible on a painting to aid recalling the text months/ years later. I have selected Watteau’s painting ‘the scale of love’ as an example of how to memoize the first of the Servant passages from Isaiah. Hang this painting in the DINING ROOM […]
Servant Song 2 Isaiah 49
And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him—for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—6 he says:“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and […]
The Isaiah Servant songs
The servant songs (also called the servant poems or the Songs of the Suffering Servant) are four songs in Isaiah Isaiah 42:1-4, Isaiah 49:1-6 Isaiah 50:4-7 Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 They are a about a servant of YHWH . God chooses and calls the servant to lead the nations but is despised and abhorred. Some see 61:1-3 as a fifth […]