lesserot - Isaiah:50-51

lesserot@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus hath said the Lord, Where is your mothers bill of divorcement, wherewith I have sent her away? or who of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother sent away.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why did I come and no man was there, did I call, with none to answer? hath my hand become too short for redeeming? or is there no power in me to deliver? behold, through my threatening I can dry up the sea, I can change the rivers into a wilderness: their fish stink for want of water, and die for thirst.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:3 @ I can clothe the heavens with blackness, and I can make sackcloth their garment.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:4 @ The Lord Eternal hath given me a tongue for teaching, that I should know how to strengthen the weary with the word: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to listen like those who are well taught.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord Eternal hath opened me my ear, and I resisted not: I turned not backward.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:6 @ My back I gave up to the smiters, and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: my face I hid not from abuse and spitting.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:7 @ But the Lord Eternal ever helpeth me; therefore was I not confounded; therefore have I rendered my face like a flint, and I knew that I should not be made ashamed.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:8 @ He that justifieth me is near; who will contend with me? let us stand forward together: who hath a dispute with me? let him come near to me.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:9 @ Behold, the Lord Eternal will help me; who is the man that will condemn me? lo, they all shall wear out as a garment: the moth shall eat them up.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:10 @ Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? though he have walked in darkness, and had no light: let him trust in the name of the Lord, and lean for support upon his God.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all ye that kindle fire, that urge on the brands: walk by the blaze of your fire, and by the brands ye have kindled; from my hand hath this been bestowed on you; in pain shall ye lie down.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:1 @ Hearken to me, ye that pursue righteousness, that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were dug up.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for he was one when I called him, and I blessed him, and I increased him.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:3 @ Yea, the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her ruins; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:4 @ Listen unto me, my people; and O my nation, give ear unto me; for a law shall proceed from me, and my justice will I establish as a light of the people.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:5 @ My righteousness is near; my salvation goeth forth, and my arms shall judge the people: on me the isles shall wait, and for my arm shall they hope.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell thereon shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall exist for ever, and my righteousness shall not be delayed.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:7 @ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, O people in whose heart my law is: ye must not fear the reproach of men, and of their revilings shall ye not be in dread.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:8 @ For like a garment shall the moth eat them up, and like wool shall the worm eat them; but my righteousness shall exist for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord: awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of olden times. Art thou not it that struck down Rahab, that pierced the crocodile?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:10 @ Art thou not it that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that rendered the depths of the sea a road for the redeemed to pass through?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:11 @ And shall the ransomed of the Lord return, and come to Zion with song, with everlasting joy upon their head; gladness and joy shall they obtain, while sorrow and sighing shall have fled away.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:12 @ I, I am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal that must die, and of a son of man who will wither as the grass?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:13 @ And thou forgettest the Lord, thy Maker, who hath spread out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou dreadest continually, all the day, because of the fury of the oppressor, whenever he aimeth to destroy: and where is the fury of the oppressor?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:14 @ The exile will be speedily set free; and he shall not die in the dungeon, and his bread shall not fail.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:15 @ For I am the Lord thy God, who stirreth up the sea that its waves roar: the Lord of hosts is his name.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:16 @ And I have placed my words in thy mouth, and with the shadow of my hand have I covered thee: to plant the heavens, and to lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou art my people.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:17 @ Rouse up, rouse up, arise, O Jerusalem, thou who hast drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: the deep cup of confusion hast thou drunk, hast thou drained.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:18 @ There is none to lead her, from all the children whom she hath born; and there is none that taketh her by the hand, from all the children whom she hath brought up.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:19 @ Two things are these which have befallen thee: who will have compassion for thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and swordwith whom shall I comfort thee?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:20 @ Thy children have fainted, they lie at the entrance of all streets, as a wild bull caught in a net, who are full of the fury of the Lord, the threatening of thy God.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:21 @ Therefore hear now this, O thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus hath said thy Lord, the Eternal, and thy God, who will ever plead for his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of confusion, the deep cup of my fury: thou shalt never more drink it again.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:23 @ And I will place it in the hand of those who have tortured thee, that have said to thy soul, Bend thee down, that we may pass over; and thou madest like the earth thy back, and like the street for those that passed over.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, thou holy city; for no more shall enter into thee henceforth the uncircumcised and the unclean.