Isaias (Isaiah) 50
50
1THUS saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? Or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your iniquities: and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.
2Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? Or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water and shall die for thirst.
3I will clothe the heavens with darkness and will make sackcloth their covering.
4The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary. He wakeneth in the morning: in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
5The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.
6I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me and spit upon me.
7The Lord God is my helper: therefore am I not confounded. Therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock: and I know that I shall not be confounded.
8He is near that justifieth me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
9Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment: the moth shall eat them up.
10Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? Let him hope in the name of the Lord and lean upon his God.
11Behold, all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with flames, walk in the light of your fire and in the flames which you have kindled. This is done to you by my hand: you shall sleep in sorrows.
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Isaiah 50
50
The Lord's Power To Punish
1 #
Ba 4.6. The Lord says, “Children,
I didn't divorce your mother
or sell you to pay debts;
I divorced her and sold you
because of your sins.
2I came and called out,
but you didn't answer.
Have I lost my power
to rescue and save?
At my command oceans and rivers
turn into deserts;
fish rot and stink
for lack of water.
3I make the sky turn dark
like the sackcloth
you wear at funerals.”
God's Servant Must Suffer
4The Lord God gives me
the right words
to encourage the weary.
Each morning he awakens me
eager to learn his teaching;
5he made me willing to listen
and not rebel or run away.
6 #
Mt 26.67; Mk 14.65. I let them beat my back
and pull out my beard.
I didn't turn aside
when they insulted me
and spit in my face.
7But the Lord God keeps me
from being disgraced.
So I refuse to give up,
because I know
God will never let me down.
8 #
Ro 8.33,34. My protector is nearby;
no one can stand here
to accuse me of wrong.
9The Lord God will help me
and prove I am innocent.
My accusers will wear out
like moth-eaten clothes.
10None of you respect the Lord
or obey his servant.
You walk in the dark
instead of the light;
you don't trust the name
of the Lord your God.#50.10 God: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 10.
11Go ahead and walk in the light
of the fires you have set.#50.11 Go … set: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
But with his own hand,
the Lord will punish you
and make you suffer.
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