ULT ISA Chapter 50

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50 Thus says Yahweh,

“Where is this, the writing of divorce of your mother,

whom I sent her away?

Or who is it among my creditors

to whom I sold you?

Behold, you were sold because of your iniquities,

and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.

2 Why did I come, and there was no man?

I called, but there was none answering.

Being short, is my hand too short for redemption?

Or if there is no power in me to deliver?

Behold, with my rebuke I dry up the sea.

I make rivers a wilderness;

their fish stink from there being no water,

and they die of thirst.

3 I clothe the heavens with darkness,

and I make sackcloth their covering.”

4 The Lord Yahweh has given to me a tongue of the learned,

to know to sustain the weary with a word.

He awakens me in the morning;

in the morning he awakens for me

an ear to hear like the learned.

5 The Lord Yahweh has opened for me an ear,

and I, I did not rebel;

I did not turn backward.

6 I gave my back to the ones striking,

and my cheeks to the ones plucking;

I did not hide my face

from disgraces and spitting.

7 But the Lord Yahweh helps me;

therefore I am not disgraced.

Therefore I set my face like flint,

and I know that I will not have shame.

8 The one justifying me is near.

Who will contend with me? Let us stand together!

Who is the master of my judgment?

Let him come near to me!

9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me.

Who is he who condemns me?

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

the moth will devour them.

10 Who among you fears Yahweh,

hearing the voice of his servant,

who walks in darknesses

and there is no brightness for him?

Let him trust in the name of Yahweh,

and let him support himself on his God.

11 Behold, all of you kindlers of fire,

ones girding on torches,

walk in the light of your fire

and in the torches you have kindled!

This will be for you from my hand:

you will lie down in anguish.