rsv Isaiah:50:2-6
rsv@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.
rsv@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering."
rsv@Isaiah:50:4 @ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
rsv@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward.
rsv@Isaiah:50:6 @ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.