Isaiah / Yesha'yahu 50

1 Adonai says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away?

or to which of my creditors have I sold you?

Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,

and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

2 Why, when I came, was there no one?

when I called, why was there no one to answer?

Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

3 I clothe the heavens with blackness,

and I make sackcloth their covering.” [a]

4 [b] The Lord Adonai has given me the tongue of those who are taught,

[c] that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.

He wakens morning by morning,

he wakens my ear to sh'ma ·hear obey· as those who are taught.

5 [d] The Lord Adonai has opened my ear,

and I was not rebellious.

I have not turned back.

6 [e] I gave my back to those who beat me,

† and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.

[g] I didn’t hide my face from insult [h] and spitting. [i]

7 For the Lord Adonai will help me.

Therefore I have not been confounded.

[j] Therefore I have set my face like a flint,

and I know that I shall not be disappointed.

8 [k] He who declares me righteous me is near.

Who will bring charges against me?

Let us stand up together.

Who is my mishpat · adversary·?

Let him come near to me.

9 Behold, the Lord Adonai will help me!

Who is he who will condemn me?

Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.

The moths will eat them up.

10 [l] Who among you fears Adonai ,

and sh'ma ·hears obeys· the voice of his servant?

[m] He who walks in darkness,

and has no light,

let him trust in Adonai ’s name,

and rely on his God.

11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,

who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves;

walk in the flame of your fire,

and among the torches that you have kindled.

You will have this from my hand:

You will lie down in sorrow.

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