Isaiah 50

Thus says Yahweh , Where is the bill of your mother's divorce , with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

Why , when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't 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 Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught , that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught .

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward .

I gave my back to the strikers , and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair ; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.

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

He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

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

Who is among you who fears Yahweh , who obeys the voice of his servant ? He who walks in darkness, and has no light , let him trust in the name of Yahweh , and rely on his God.

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