In Isaiah, chapter fifty, verses four through eleven, highlighting some scriptures, “The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season.” The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint.” The theme verses under the Obedient Response of the Servant section, intertwined with the prophet’s own experiences and exhortations in these verses, are prophetic words of the character and suffering of the Messiah. The Messiah would comfort the weak and the troubled, as in chapter forty-two, verse three, and Matthew eleven, verse twenty-eight. He Himself would commune “morning by morning” with His Father, as in Mark one, verse thirty-five. The Messiah would endure suffering, humiliation, and disgrace in fulfilling His task of redeeming the human race, as in Matthew twenty-seven, verses twenty-six, verse thirty, Mark fourteen, verse sixty-five, Mark fifteen, verses sixteen through twenty, and John nineteen, verse one, respectively. Because Christ knew that His suffering and death would result in redemption for all who would believe in Him, “he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,” as in Luke nine, verse fifty-one.
The prophet Isaiah calls upon those who trust in the Lord to remain faithful to Him. However, they may have walked in the darkness of the apostasy of the nation. Those who kindle a fire (walk in the light of their own fires- their own ideas and ways) rather than submitting to God and the revelation of His Word will “lie down in sorrow.”