Isaiah 50:1-9 ▼

1 Thus saith the LORD: 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.

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 become foul, because there is no water, And die 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 them that are taught, That I should 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.

5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, And I was not rebellious, Neither turned away backward.

6 I gave my back to the smiters, And my checks 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 have I not been 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 up 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? Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment, The moth shall eat them up.