Isaiah 50:4 Douay-Rheims

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.

Rashi

1040–1105 Jewish

gave me a tongue for teaching Isaiah was saying, The Lord sent me and gave me a tongue fit to teach, in order to know to establish a time for the faint and thirsty to hear the words of the Holy One, blessed be He. to establish times Heb. לָעוּת. Menahem classified it in the group of (Ps. 119:126) “It is time (עֵת) to do for the Lord.” To establish times for them. He awakens my ear He awakens my ear with His Holy Spirit. to hear according to the teachings According to the custom of the teachings, the truth and that which is proper.

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