1. Isaiah 50:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the occurrence of “hand”?

Isaiah 50:2 (ESV)

2 Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

The occurrence of hand here is significant because this is the first of a series of statements about the hand of the Lord in salvation, culminating in Isaiah 53:1 (Isaiah 51:5, Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 52:10). 1