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1 Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away. 2 Wherefore, I came, and no man? I called and none answered. Being short, was my hand shortened from redeeming? and if not power in me to deliver behold, in my rebuke I will dry up the sea; I will set the rivers a desert: their fish shall stink from no water, and they shall die with thirst. 3 I will put darkness upon the heavens, and I will put sackcloth their covering. 4 The Lord Jehovah gave to me the tongue of the expert to know to help the weary with a word: he will rouse up in the morning by morning, he will rouse up to me the ear to hear as the expert. 5 The Lord Jehovah opened to me the ear and I opposed not, and I drew not back. 6 My back I gave to those smiting, and my cheeks to those tearing out the hair: and my face I hid not from shame and spittle. 7 And the Lord Jehovah will help to me: for this I was not ashamed; for this I set my face as the flint, and I shall know that I shall not be ashamed. 8 He drawing near justifying me: who shall contend with me? we will stand together: who the lord of my judgment? he shall draw near to me. 9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help for me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall decay as a garment; the moth shall eat them. Isaiah 50:1-9, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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