Isaiah 50

Thus saith Jehovah , Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

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 stink , because there is no water, and die for thirst.

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught , that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught .

The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward .

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.

For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame .

He is near that justifieth me; who will content with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold , all they shall wax old as a garment , the moth shall eat them up.

Who is among you that feareth Jehovah , that obeyeth the voice of his servant ? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light , let him trust in the name of Jehovah , and rely upon his God.

Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.