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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 50 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/50.htm" 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href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce,</span><br /><span class="indent">with which I sent her away?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Or which of my creditors is it</span><br /><span class="indent">to whom I have sold you?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,</span><br /><span class="indent">and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why, when I came, was there no man;</span><br /><span class="indent">why, when I called, was there no one to answer?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or have I no power to deliver?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,</span><br /><span class="indent">I make the rivers a desert;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">their fish stink for lack of water</span><br /><span class="indent">and die of thirst.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I clothe the heavens with blackness</span><br /><span class="indent">and make sackcloth their covering.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> has given me</span><br /><span class="indent">the tongue of those who are taught,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">that I may know how to sustain with a word</span><br /><span class="indent">him who is weary.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Morning by morning he awakens;</span><br /><span class="indent">he awakens my ear</span><br /><span class="indent">to hear as those who are taught.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> has opened my ear,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I was not rebellious;</span><br /><span class="indent">I turned not backward.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I gave my back to those who strike,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I hid not my face</span><br /><span class="indent">from disgrace and spitting.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> helps me;</span><br /><span class="indent">therefore I have not been disgraced;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">therefore I have set my face like a flint,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I know that I shall not be put to shame.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="indent">He who vindicates me is near.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Who will contend with me?</span><br /><span class="indent">Let us stand up together.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Who is my adversary?</span><br /><span class="indent">Let him come near to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> helps me;</span><br /><span class="indent">who will declare me guilty?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;</span><br /><span class="indent">the moth will eat them up.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who among you fears the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="indent">and obeys the voice of his servant?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Let him who walks in darkness</span><br /><span class="indent">and has no light</span><br /><span class="ln-group">trust in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="indent">and rely on his God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, all you who kindle a fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">who equip yourselves with burning torches!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Walk by the light of your fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">and by the torches that you have kindled!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">This you have from my hand:</span><br /><span class="indent">you shall lie down in 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