Isaiah 50

The Servant, Israel’s Hope

50Thus says the Lord:

“Where is ^athe certificate of your mother’s divorce,

Whom I have put away?

Or which of My ^bcreditors is it to whom I have sold you?

For your iniquities ^cyou have sold yourselves,

And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.

²Why, when I came, was there no man?

Why, 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?

Indeed with My ^drebuke I dry up the sea,

I make the rivers a wilderness;

Their fish stink because there is no water,

And die of thirst.

^3eI clothe the heavens with blackness,

^fAnd I make sackcloth their covering.”

⁴“The ^gLord God has given Me

The tongue of the learned,

That I should know how to speak

A word in season to him who is ^hweary.

He awakens Me morning by morning,

He awakens My ear

To hear as the learned.

⁵The Lord God ⁱhas opened My ear;

And I was not ^jrebellious,

Nor did I turn away.

^6kI gave My back to those who struck Me,

And ^lMy cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;

I did not hide My face from shame and ^mspitting.

⁷“For the Lord God will help Me;

Therefore I will not be disgraced;

Therefore ⁿI have set My face like a flint,

And I know that I will not be ashamed.

^8oHe is near who justifies Me;

Who will contend with Me?

Let us stand together.

Who is ¹My adversary?

Let him come near Me.

⁹Surely the Lord God will help Me;

Who is he who will condemn Me?

^pIndeed they will all grow old like a garment;

^qThe moth will eat them up.

¹⁰“Who among you fears the Lord?

Who obeys the voice of His Servant?

Who ^rwalks in darkness

And has no light?

^sLet him trust in the name of the Lord

And rely upon his God.

¹¹Look, all you who kindle a fire,

Who encircle yourselves with sparks:

Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—

^tThis you shall have from My hand:

You shall lie down ^uin torment.