Isaiah:50-51

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* Thus saith the LORD , Where is the bill of your mothers 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 . * 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 . * I clothe the heavens with blackness , and I make sackcloth their covering . * 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 ya #@ph #: he wakeneth morning by morning , he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned . * The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear , and I was not rebellious , neither turned away back . * 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 . * 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 . * He is near that justifieth me ; who will contend with me ? let us stand together : who is mine adversary #H4941 ? let him come near to me . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 ma #atsebah #. * Hearken to me , ye that follow after righteousness , ye that seek the LORD : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn , and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged . * Look unto Abraham your father , and unto Sarah that bare 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 therein , thanksgiving , and the voice of melody . * Hearken unto me , my people ; and give ear unto me , O my nation : for a law shall proceed from me , and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people . * My righteousness is near ; my salvation is gone forth , and mine arms shall judge the people ; the isles shall wait upon me , and on mine arm shall they trust . * 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 wax old like a garment , and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever , and my righteousness shall not be abolished . * Hearken unto me , ye that know righteousness , the people in whose heart is my law ; fear ye not the reproach of men , neither be ye afraid of their revilings . * For the moth shall eat them up like a garment , and the worm shall eat them like wool : but my righteousness shall be for ever , and my salvation from generation to generation . * Awake , awake , put on strength , O arm of the LORD ; awake , as in the ancient days , in the generations of old . Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab , and wounded the dragon ? * Art thou not it which hath dried the sea , the waters of the great deep ; that hath 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 unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head ro #sh #: they shall obtain gladness and joy ; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away . * I , even I , am he that comforteth you : who art thou , that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die , and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; * And forgettest the LORD thy maker , that hath stretched forth the heavens , and laid the foundations of the earth ; and hast feared 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 ? * The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed , and that he should not die in the pit , nor that his bread should fail . * But I am the LORD thy God , that divided the sea , whose waves roared : The LORD of hosts is his name . * And I have put my words in thy mouth , and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand , that I may plant the heavens , and lay the foundations of the earth , and say unto Zion , Thou art my people . * Awake , awake , stand up , O Jerusalem , which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury ; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling tar #elah #, and wrung them out . * There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth ; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up . * These two things are come unto thee ; who shall be sorry for thee ? desolation , and destruction , and the famine ra #ab #, and the sword : by whom shall I comfort thee ? * Thy sons have fainted , they lie at the head of all the streets , as a wild bull in a net : they are full of the fury of the LORD , the rebuke of thy God . * Therefore hear now this , thou afflicted , and drunken , but not with wine : * Thus saith thy Lord the LORD , and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people , Behold , I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling tar #elah #, even the dregs of the cup of my fury ; thou shalt no more drink it again : * But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee ; which have said to thy soul , Bow down , that we may go over : and thou hast laid thy body as the ground , and as the street , to them that went over . * Awake , awake ; put on thy strength , O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments , O Jerusalem , the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean .

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