“1 Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother’s
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to
whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2
Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there]
none 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 wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no
water, and dieth for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and
I make sackcloth their covering.”
“4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth
morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5 The
Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned
away back. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For
the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not
be ashamed. 8 [He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me?
let us stand together: who [is] mine 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 wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them
up.”
“10 Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice
of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him
trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11 Behold, all ye
that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in
the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This
shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.” (Isaiah
50:1-11 AV)