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Chapter 50 |
| 1 | Thus saith the
LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or
which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your
iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
put away. |
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| Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? 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? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make
the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and
dieth for thirst. |
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3 | I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering. |
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4 | The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue
of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the
learned. |
| 5
| The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious, neither turned away back. |
| 6 | I gave my back to the smiters,
and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame
and spitting. |
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7 | For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not
be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I
shall not be ashamed. |
| 8 | He is near that justifieth me; who will
contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come
near to me. |
| 9
| Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them
up. |
| 10 |
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice
of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in
the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. |
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11 | Behold, all ye that
kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of
your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine
hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. |
