1 the Lord says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away?or to which of my creditors have I sold you?Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
2 Why, when I came, was there no one?when I called, why was there no one to answer?Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness,and I make sackcloth their covering.”
4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught,that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.He wakens morning by morning,he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.