Yahweh’s power

50 This is also what Yahweh says:

“You Israeli children, do not think [RHQ] that I forced your parents to be exiled/taken to Babylonia [MET]

like some men send away their wives

after giving them a paper

on which they state that they were divorcing them!

I certainly did not [RHQ] get rid of you like a man who sells his children to get money to pay what he owes.

No, the reason that I forced you to be exiled

was to punish you because of the sins that you have committed [DOU].

2 When I came to you to rescue you,

why did no one answer when I called out to you [RHQ]?

Was there no one there [RHQ]?

Or, did you think that I do not have the power [MTY] to rescue you [DOU]?

Think about this:

I can speak to a sea and cause it to become dry!

I can cause rivers to become deserts,

with the result that the fish in the rivers die from thirst and they rot.

3 I cause the sky to become dark,

as though [MET] it was wearing black clothes because it was mourning because someone had died.”

4 Yahweh our God has given me his wise message [MTY]

in order that I may encourage those who are weary.

Each morning he awakens me,

in order that I [SYN] may listen to what he teaches [SIM] me.

5 Yahweh our God has spoken to me [IDM],

and I have not rejected what he told me;

I have accepted [LIT] it.

6 I allowed people to beat me on my back

and to pull out the whiskers in my beard because they hated me.

I did not turn away [MTY] from them

when they made fun of me and spat on me.

7 But, because the Lord our God helps me,

I will never be humiliated.

Therefore, I am strongly determined [IDM] to face/endure difficulties,

and I know that nothing will cause me to be ashamed.

8 God, the one who vindicates me, is near to me;

so if anyone [RHQ] stands in front of me and accuses me in a court,

he will not be able to show that I have done anything that is wrong.

9 The Lord our God defends me in court,

so no one [RHQ] will be able to ◄condemn me/declare that I am guilty►.

All those who accuse me will disappear

like [SIM] old clothes that have been eaten by ◄larvae of moths/cockroaches►.

10 If you revere Yahweh

and do what his servant tells you to do,

even if you are ◄walking in darkness/enduring suffering►, and it seems that [MET] there is no light,

trust in Yahweh your God [DOU] to help you.

11 But you people who oppose me,

who would like to throw me into a blazing fire,

walk in your own fires

and burn yourselves with your own torches!

This is what Yahweh will cause to happen to you:

You will be enduring great torment when you die [EUP]!