This is what the Lord says:

Where is your mother’s divorce certificate

that I used to send her away?n

Or to which of my creditors did I sell you?o

Look, you were sold for your iniquities,p

and your mother was sent away

because of your transgressions.

2 Why was no one there when I came?

Why was there no one to answer when I called?

Is my arm too weak to redeem?q

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;r

I turn the rivers into a wilderness;

their fish rot because of lack of water

and die of thirst.

3 I dress the heavens in black

and make sackcloth their covering.s