Later text
Isaiah 55:3BSB
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
Intertextuality Pair
Isaiah 55:3 → Psalm 89:50
Echo
Earlier text
Psalm 89:50BSB
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
Significance
This is a weak pairing at the verse level, and the labels are set to reflect it. Psalm 89:50 is built on חֶרְפָּה (cherpah, "reproach"), עֶבֶד (ebed, "servants"), and נשׂא (nasa, "bear"): "Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people." None of Isaiah 55:3's terms appears — no חֶסֶד, no דָּוִד, no בְּרִית, no אמן. The connection is contextual: verse 50 sits inside the lament of Psalm 89:38-51 that Isaiah 55:3 answers, but the answer lands on verse 49, where the chesed-David-aman cluster actually is. See Isaiah 55:3 to Psalm 89:49 for the verbal evidence.
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- Echo
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- Longitudinal Theme
What verses 50-51 do add, and what makes them worth keeping in the file even at Echo strength, is the shape of the grief. The reproach is not only the nation's; it falls on the anointed one himself — "how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one (מָשִׁיחַ, mashiach)." The psalm's last complaint before its closing doxology is that the Messiah is being jeered at.
Isaiah's answer to the lament as a whole is a covenant that cannot fail. But the route to it runs through the taunting rather than around it. The Servant of Isaiah 53 is "despised and rejected by men," and the Gospels report the mockery of the anointed at the cross in almost the psalm's own terms (Matthew 27:39-44). Hebrews then turns the psalm's complaint into an invitation: "Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore" (Hebrews 13:13). The reproach the psalmist begged God to remember is not removed; it is absorbed by the Messiah and then shared with His people as an honour.
So the lament's last word and Isaiah's first word are not in tension. The everlasting covenant is offered "without money and without cost" (55:1) precisely because the cost was paid where the taunting was loudest.
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