Isaiah 50

50This is what the Lord says:

Where is your mother’s divorce certificate

that I used to send her away? ^m

Or who were My creditors that I sold you to? ⁿ

Look, you were sold for your iniquities, ^o

and your mother was put 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 hand too short to redeem? ^p

Or do I have no power to deliver?

Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke; ^q

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 clothing. ^r

The Obedient Servant

⁴The Lord God has given Me

the tongue of those who are instructed ^s

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. ^t

⁵The Lord God has opened My ear,

and I was not rebellious;

I did not turn back. ^u

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. ^v

⁷The Lord God will help Me;

therefore I have not been humiliated;

therefore I have set My face like flint, ^w

and I know I will not be put to shame.

⁸The One who vindicates Me is near; ^x

who will contend with Me?

Let us confront each other. ^y

Who has a case against Me? ^z

Let him come near Me!

⁹In truth, the Lord God will help Me;

who will condemn Me? ^a

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

a moth will devour them. ^b

¹⁰Who among you fears the Lord,

listening to the voice of His Servant? ^c

Who among you walks in darkness,

and has no light?

Let him trust in the name of Yahweh;

let him lean on his God.

¹¹Look, all you who kindle a fire,

who encircle yourselves with ^dfirebrands;

walk in the light of your fire

and in the firebrands you have lit!

This is what you’ll get from My hand:

you will lie down in a place of torment.