Isaiah 50
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Thus saith the LORD,
Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have
put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold
you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for
your transgressions is your mother put away.
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Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? 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? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a
wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water,
and dieth for thirst.
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and
I make sackcloth their covering.
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The Lord GOD hath
given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak
a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by
morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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The Lord GOD hath
opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away
back.
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I gave my back to the smiters, and my
cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from
shame and spitting. Mt. 26.67 · Mk. 14.65
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For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I
set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be
ashamed.
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He is near that justifieth me; who
will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine
adversary? let him come near to me.
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Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo,
they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them
up.
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Who is among you that feareth
the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him
trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon
his God.
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Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that
compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of
your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall
ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in
sorrow.
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