Isaiah:50-51

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* So says the LORD , Where [is ] your mother 's bill of divorce , whom I have put away ? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you ? Behold , you were sold for your iniquities , and your mother is put away for your sins . * Who knows why I have come , and no one [is here ]? I called and no one answered . Is My hand shortened at all so 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 stink , because there is no water , and die for thirst . * I clothe the heavens [with ] blackness , and I make sackcloth their covering . * The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned , to know to help the weary [with ] a word . He wakens morning by morning , He wakens the ear to hear as the learned . * The Lord Jehovah has opened My ear , and I was not rebellious , nor turned away backwards . * I gave My back to the strikers , and My cheeks to pluckers ; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting . * For the Lord Jehovah will help Me ; therefore I have not been ashamed . On account of this I have set My face like a flint , and I know that I shall not be ashamed . * [He is ] near who justifies Me ; who will contend with Me ? Let us stand together ; who [is ] master of My judgment ? Let him come near Me . * Behold , the Lord Jehovah will help Me ; who [is ] he [who ] shall condemn Me ? Lo , they all shall wear out like a garment ; the moth shall eat them . * Who among you fears the LORD , who obeys the voice of His servant , who walks [in ] darkness and has no light ? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rest on his God . * Behold , all you who kindle a fire , who are surrounded [with ] sparks ; walk in the light of your fire , and in the sparks which you have kindled . This you shall have of My hand ; you shall lie down in sorrow . * Listen to me , pursuers of righteousness ; seekers of the LORD : Look to the rock [from which ] you were cut , and to the hole of the pit [from which ] you were dug . * Look to Abraham your father , and to Sarah [who ] bore you ; for I called him alone , and blessed him , and increased him . * For the LORD shall comfort Zion ; He will comfort all her waste places ; and He will make her wilderness like Eden , and her desert like the garden of the LORD . Joy and gladness shall be found in it , thanksgiving and the voice of melody . * Listen to Me , My people ; and give ear to Me , O My nation ; for a law shall go out from Me , and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of peoples . * My righteousness [is ] near ; My salvation has gone out , and My arms shall judge peoples ; the coastlands shall wait on Me , and on My arm they shall trust . * Lift up your eyes to the heavens , and look on the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke , and the earth shall become old like a garment ; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way . But My salvation shall be forever , and My righteousness shall not be broken . * Listen to me , you who know righteousness , the people in whose heart [is ] My law ; do not fear the reproach of men , nor be afraid of their revelings . * For the moth shall eat them up like a garment , and the worm shall eat them like wool ; but My righteousness shall be forever , and My salvation from generation to generation . * Awake ! awake ! Put on strength , O arm of the LORD . Awake ! as in the days of old , in the generations of old . Was it not You [who ] cut Rahab into pieces , piercing the sea-monster ? * Was it not You [who ] dried up the sea , the waters of the great deep ; who made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over ? * Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with singing into Zion ; and everlasting joy [shall be ] on their head . Gladness and joy shall overtake [them ]; sorrow and mourning shall flee away . * I , I , [am ] He who comforts you . Who [are ] you , that you should fear a man . He shall die , or from the son of man ? He shall be made [as ] grass ? * And you forget Jehovah your Maker , who has stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth . And you dread continually , every day , because of the fury of the oppressor , as if he were ready to destroy . And where [is ] the fury of the oppressor ? * Bowed he hurries to be freed , and not [that ] he should die in the pit , nor that he [lack ] his bread . * But I [am ] Jehovah your God , who divided the sea , and its waves roared ; Jehovah of hosts [is ] His name . * And I have put My words in your mouth , and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand , that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth , and say to Zion , You [are ] My people . * Awake ! Awake ! Rise up , O Jerusalem , who drank the cup of His fury from the hand of the LORD ; you have drunk the cup of reeling to the dregs , [and ] wrung [them ] out . * No guide [is ] for her among all the sons she has borne ; and none takes her by the hand of all the sons [that ] she made to grow . * These two [things ] have come to you , who shall be sorry for you ? Desolation , and ruin , and the famine , and the sword . By whom shall I comfort you ? * Your sons have fainted , they lie at the head of all the street like a wild antelope [in ] a net , filled with the fury of the LORD , the rebuke of your God . * So now hear this , afflicted one , and drunken , but not with wine . * So says your Lord Jehovah , and your God [who ] strives [for ] His people , Behold , I have taken the cup of reeling from your hand , even the dregs of the cup of My fury ; you shall never drink it again . * But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you , who have said to your soul , Bow down so that we may cross ; and put your back as the ground , even as the street to those who cross . * Awake ! Awake ! Put on your strength , Zion ; put on your beautiful robes , O Jerusalem , the holy city . For never again shall come to you uncircumcised and unclean ones .

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