Isaiah 50

50This 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.

²Why 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.

³I dress the heavens in black

and make sackcloth their covering.^s

THE OBEDIENT SERVANT

⁴The Lord God has given me

the tongue of those who are instructed^t

to know how to sustain the weary with a word.

He awakens me each morning;

he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.^u

⁵The Lord God has opened my ear,

and I was not rebellious;

I did not turn back.^v

⁶I gave my back to those who beat me,

and my cheeks to those who tore out my beard.

I did not hide my face from scorn and spitting.^a

⁷The Lord God will help me;

therefore I have not been humiliated;

therefore I have set my face like flint,^b

and I know I will not be put to shame.

⁸The one who vindicates me is near;^c

who will contend with me?

Let us confront each other.^A

Who has a case against me?^B

Let him come near me!

⁹In truth, the Lord God will help me;

who will condemn me?^d

Indeed, all of them will wear out like a garment;

a moth will devour them.^e

¹⁰Who among you fears the Lord

and listens to his servant?^f

Who among you walks in darkness,

and has no light?

Let him trust in the name of the Lord;

let him lean on his God.

¹¹Look, all you who kindle a fire,

who encircle yourselves with^C torches;

walk in the light of your fire

and of the torches you have lit!

This is what you’ll get from my hand:

you will lie down in a place of torment.