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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/49.htm" title="Isaiah 49">◄</a> Isaiah 50 <a href="../isaiah/51.htm" title="Isaiah 51">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29050" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn29050" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">Salvation Through the Lord’s Servant</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="sl1f"><span id="v29050001" class="ver">1</span>Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>:</p> <p class="sl">Where is the bill of divorce</p> <p class="sl1">with which I dismissed your mother?<a id="rfn29050001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29050001-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">Or to which of my creditors</p> <p class="sl1">have I sold you?</p> <p class="sl">It was for your sins you were sold,</p> <p class="sl1">for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.<a id="ren29050001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29050001-a">a</a></p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29050002" class="ver">2</span>Why was no one there when I came?</p> <p class="sl1">Why did no one answer when I called?<a id="rfn29050002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29050002-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">Is my hand too short to ransom?</p> <p class="sl1">Have I not the strength to deliver?</p> <p class="sl">See, with my rebuke I dry up the sea,</p> <p class="sl1">I turn rivers into wilderness;</p> <p class="sl">Their fish rot for lack of water,</p> <p class="sl1">and die of thirst.<a id="ren29050002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29050002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29050003" class="ver">3</span>I clothe the heavens in black,</p> <p class="sl1">and make sackcloth their covering.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29050004" class="ver">4</span><a id="rfn29050004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29050004-1">*</a> The Lord <span class="tetr">God</span> has given me</p> <p class="sl1">a well-trained tongue,</p> <p class="sl">That I might know how to answer the weary</p> <p class="sl1">a word that will waken them.</p> <p class="sl">Morning after morning</p> <p class="sl1">he wakens my ear to hear as disciples do;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29050005" class="ver">5</span>The Lord <span class="tetr">God</span> opened my ear;</p> <p class="sl1">I did not refuse,</p> <p class="sl1">did not turn away.<a id="rfn29050005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29050005-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29050006" class="ver">6</span>I gave my back to those who beat me,</p> <p class="sl1">my cheeks to those who tore out my beard;<a id="rfn29050006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29050006-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">My face I did not hide</p> <p class="sl1">from insults and spitting.<a id="ren29050006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29050006-c">c</a></p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29050007" class="ver">7</span>The Lord <span class="tetr">God</span> is my help,</p> <p class="sl1">therefore I am not disgraced;</p> <p class="sl">Therefore I have set my face like flint,</p> <p class="sl1">knowing that I shall not be put to shame.<a id="ren29050007-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29050007-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29050008" class="ver">8</span>He who declares my innocence is near.</p> <p class="sl1">Who will oppose me?</p> <p class="sl1">Let us appear together.</p> <p class="sl">Who will dispute my right?</p> <p class="sl1">Let them confront me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29050009" class="ver">9</span>See, the Lord <span class="tetr">God</span> is my help;</p> <p class="sl1">who will declare me guilty?</p> <p class="sl">See, they will all wear out like a garment,</p> <p class="sl1">consumed by moths.<a id="ren29050009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29050009-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29050010" class="ver">10</span>Who among you fears the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,<a id="rfn29050010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29050010-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">heeds his servant’s voice?</p> <p class="sl">Whoever walk in darkness,</p> <p class="sl1">without any light,</p> <p class="sl">Yet trust in the name of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span></p> <p class="sl1">and rely upon their God!<a id="ren29050010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29050010-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29050011" class="ver">11</span>All you who kindle flames</p> <p class="sl1">and set flares alight,</p> <p class="sl">Walk by the light of your own fire</p> <p class="sl1">and by the flares you have burnt!</p> <p class="sl">This is your fate from my hand:</p> <p class="sl1">you shall lie down in a place of torment.</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" 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