Isaiah 50:1-9 ▼

1 THUS says the LORD: Where is the bill of the divorcement of your mother, whom I have put 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 is your mother put away.

2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot save? 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 they die of thirst.

3 I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.

4 The LORD God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak and declare a word to the weary; he wakens me in the morning; in the morning he causes my ears to hear the teaching.

5 The LORD God has opened my ears, and I have not turned back to the evil way, neither have I been rebellious.

6 I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those who slap on the face; I turned not my face from shame and spitting.

7 For the LORD God has helped me; therefore I am not confounded; therefore I have hardened my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

8 For he who justifies me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my 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 wear out as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.