Isaiah 50

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¹Thus saith Jehovah :

Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement,

By which I have dismissed her?

Or who is he among my creditors,

To whom I have sold you?

Behold, for your iniquities are ye sold;

And for your transgressions is your mother dismissed.

²Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?

When I called, was there none to answer?

Is mine hand indeed shortened, that it cannot redeem?

And have I no power to deliver?

Behold, at my rebuke I made dry the sea,

I made the rivers a desert:

Their fish stinketh, because there is no water;

And dieth away for thirst.

³I clothe the heavens with blackness;

And I make sackcloth their covering.

⁴The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the learned,

That I might know how to speak a word in season to the weary.

He wnkeneth morning by morning,

He wakeneth mine ear to hearken with the attention of a learner.

⁵The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear,

And I was not rebellious;

Neither turned away back.

⁶I 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.

⁷For the Lord Jehovah will help me;

Therefore I shall not be ashamed:

Therefore I set my face like a flint,

For I know that I shall not be confounded.

⁸He is near that justifieth me;

Who is he that will contend with me? let us stand forth together:

Who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

⁹Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me;

Who is he that shall condemn me?

Lo! they all shall wax old as a garment;

The moth shall eat them up.

¹⁰Who is there among you that feareth Jehovah ,

That hearkeneth unto the voice of his servant,

That walketh in darkness, and hath no light?

Let him trust in the name of Jehovah ;

And stay himself upon his God.

¹¹Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,

Who are begirt with combustible materials:

Walk ye in the light of your fire,

And amid the combustible materials which ye have kindled.

From my hand shall this befall you;

In sorrow ye shall lie down.