The Book of Isaiah
50: 1Thus 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. 50:2Wherefore, 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. 50:3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
covering. 50:4The 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. 50:5The
Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away
backward. 50:6I 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. 50:7For 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. 50:8He 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. 50:9Behold, 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. 50:10Who 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. 50:11Behold, 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.