50THUS 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.H559H3068H5612H517H3748H7971H5383H4376H5771H4376H6588H517H79712Why, 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.H935H376H7121H6030H3027H7114H7114H6304H3581H5337H1606H2717H3220H7760H5104H4057H1710H887H4325H4191H67723I clothe the heavens with [the] blackness [of murky storm clouds], and I make sackcloth [of mourning] their covering.H3847H8064H6940H7760H8242H36824[The 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].H136H3069H5414H3956H3928H3045H5790H1697H3287H5782H1242H1242H5782H241H8085H39285The Lord God has opened My ear, and I have not been rebellious or turned backward.H136H3069H6605H241H4784H5472H2686I 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.H5414H1460H5221H3895H4803H5641H6440H3639H75367For 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.H136H3069H5826H3637H7760H6440H2496H3045H9548He 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.H7138H6663H7378H5975H3162H1167H4941H50669Behold, 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.H136H3069H5826H7561H1086H899H6211H39810Who 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.H3373H3068H8085H6963H5650H1980H2825H5051H982H8034H3068H8172H43011Behold, 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.H6919H784H247H2131H3212H217H784H2131H1197H3027H7901H4620
