| 1 | Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce with which I put her away, O Israel? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. |
| 2 | Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, why was there no one 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 desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and they die of thirst. |
| 3 | I clothe the heavens with [the] blackness [of murky storm clouds], and I make sackcloth [of mourning] their covering. |
| 4 | [The
[a]Servant of God says] The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple
and
of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as a disciple [as one who is taught]. |
| 5 | The Lord God has opened My ear, and I have not been rebellious or turned backward. |
| 6 | I gave My back to the smiters and My cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I hid not My face from shame and spitting. |
| 7 | For the Lord God helps Me; therefore have I not been ashamed
or
confounded. Therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. |
| 8 | He is near Who declares Me in the right. Who will contend with Me? Let us stand forth together! Who is My adversary? Let him come near to Me. |
| 9 | Behold, the Lord God will help Me; who is he who will condemn Me? Behold, they all will wax old
and
be worn out as a garment; the moth will eat them up. |
| 10 | Who is among you who [reverently] fears the Lord, who obeys the voice of His Servant, yet who walks in darkness
and
deep trouble and has no shining splendor [in his heart]? Let him rely on, trust in,
and
be confident in the name of the Lord, and let him lean upon
and
be supported by his God. |
| 11 | Behold, all you [enemies of your own selves] who attempt to kindle your own fires [and work out your own plans of salvation], who surround
and
gird yourselves with momentary sparks, darts,
and
firebrands that you set aflame!—walk by the light of your self-made fire and of the sparks that you have kindled [for yourself, if you will]! But this shall you have from My hand: you shall lie down in grief
and
in torment. |
Cross references:
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Isaiah 50:6 : Matt. 26:67; 27:30; John 19:1.
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Isaiah 50:7 : Luke 9:51; Isa. 52:13; 53:10-12.
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Isaiah 50:8 : Rom. 8:33-35; I Tim. 3:16.
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Isaiah 50:9 : Heb. 1:11, 12.
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Isaiah 50:11 : Isa. 66:24.
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