1 Thus says the Lord:“Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce,Whom I have put away?Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?For your iniquities you have sold yourselves,And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.
2 Why, when I came, was there no man?Why, 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?Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea,I make the rivers a wilderness;Their fish stink because there is no water,And die of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness,And I make sackcloth their covering.”
4 “The Lord God has given MeThe tongue of the learned,That I should know how to speakA word in season to him who is weary.He awakens Me morning by morning,He awakens My earTo hear as the learned.
5 The Lord God has opened My ear;And I was not rebellious,Nor did I turn away.
6 I gave My back to those who struck Me,And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
7 “For the Lord God will help Me;Therefore I will not be disgraced;Therefore I have set My face like a flint,And I know that I will not be ashamed.