Isaiah 50
1. Thus saith * the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away * ? or which of my creditors * is it to whom I have sold * you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold * yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away * .
2. Wherefore, when I came * , was there no man? when I called * , was there none to answer * ? Is my hand shortened * at all * , that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver * ? behold, at my rebuke I dry up * the sea, I make * the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh * , because there is no water, and dieth * for thirst.
3. I clothe * the heavens with blackness, and I make * sackcloth their covering.
4. The Lord GOD hath given * me the tongue of the learned, that I should know * how to speak * a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth * morning by morning, he wakeneth * mine ear to hear * as the learned.
5. The Lord GOD hath opened * mine ear, and I was not rebellious * , neither turned away * back.
6. I 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.
7. For the Lord GOD will help * me; therefore shall I not be confounded * : therefore have I set * my face like a flint,and I know * that I shall not be ashamed * .
8. He is near that justifieth * me; who will contend * with me? let us stand * together: who is mine adversary? let him come near * to me.
9. Behold, the Lord GOD 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 * .
10. Who is among you that feareth the LORD,that obeyeth * the voice of his servant, that walketh * in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust * in the name of the LORD, and stay * upon his God.
11. Behold, all ye that kindle * a fire,that compass yourselves about * with sparks: walk * in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled * . This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down * in sorrow.
