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54 lines
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# Chapter 50
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1 Thus says the Lord:
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“Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
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Whom I have put away?
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Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
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For your iniquities you have sold yourselves,
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And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.
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2 Why, when I came, was there no man?
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Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
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Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
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Or have I no power to deliver?
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Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
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I make the rivers a wilderness;
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Their fish stink because there is no water,
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And die of thirst.
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3 I clothe the heavens with blackness,
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And I make sackcloth their covering.”
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4 “The Lord God has given Me
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The tongue of the learned,
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That I should know how to speak
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A word in season to him who is weary.
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He awakens Me morning by morning,
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He awakens My ear
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To hear as the learned.
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5 The Lord God has opened My ear;
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And I was not rebellious,
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Nor did I turn away.
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6 I gave My back to those who struck Me,
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And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;
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I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
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7 “For the Lord God will help Me;
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Therefore I will not be disgraced;
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Therefore I have set My face like a flint,
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And I know that I will not be ashamed.
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8 He is near who justifies Me;
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Who will contend with Me?
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Let us stand together.
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Who is My adversary?
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Let him come near Me.
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9 Surely the Lord God will help Me;
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Who is he who will condemn Me?
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Indeed they will all grow old like a garment;
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The moth will eat them up.
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10 “Who among you fears the Lord?
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Who obeys the voice of His Servant?
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Who walks in darkness
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And has no light?
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Let him trust in the name of the Lord
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And rely upon his God.
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11 Look, all you who kindle a fire,
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Who encircle yourselves with sparks:
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Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—
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This you shall have from My hand:
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You shall lie down in torment. |