Isaiah 50:8
Good News Translation
for God is near, and he will prove me innocent. Does anyone dare bring charges against me? Let us go to court together! Let him bring his accusation!

New Revised Standard Version
he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me.

Contemporary English Version
My protector is nearby; no one can stand here to accuse me of wrong.

New American Bible
He who declares my innocence is near. Who will oppose me? Let us appear together. Who will dispute my right? Let them confront me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.

near that

Romans 8:32-34 He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things? . . .

1 Timothy 3:16 And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

let us

Isaiah 41:1,21 Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together. . . .

Exodus 22:9 To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.

Deuteronomy 19:17 Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.

Job 23:3-7 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Matthew 5:25 Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

mine adversary.

Zechariah 3:1 And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his adversary.

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.

Context
The Servant's Obedience
7The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. 8He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.9Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.…
Cross References
Romans 8:33
Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

Romans 8:34
Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Job 13:19
Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

Psalm 119:151
Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth.

Isaiah 1:18
And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Isaiah 41:1
Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.

Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify thyself.

Isaiah 45:25
Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire: they shall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded.

Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 50:7
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