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The Prophecy
of Isaias 50
Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce
of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who
is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold
for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have
I put your mother away.
Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and
there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened
and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there
no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I
will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into
dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and
shall die for thirst.
I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make
sackcloth their covering.
The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should
know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth
in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that
I may hear him as a master.
The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist:
I have not gone back.
I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks
to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my
face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.
The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded:
therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and
I know that I shall not be confounded.
He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with
me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let
him come near to me.
Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall
condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment,
the moth shall eat them up.
Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth
the voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness,
and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord,
and lean upon his God.
Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with
dames, walk in the light of your fire, and in the dames
which you have kindled: this is done to you by my hand,
you shall sleep in sorrows. |