| Chapter 50 | |||
| 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. | ||