Isaiah 50:2-4

International Standard Version

² Why is it that when I came, no one was there?
    Why was there no answer when I called?
Was my arm^[a] too short to redeem you?
    Do^[b] I lack the strength to rescue you?
Look! By my mere rebuke I dry up the sea,
    I turn rivers into a desert.
Their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.
³ I clothe the skies with darkness
    and make sackcloth their covering.”

⁴ “The Lord God has given me
    a learned tongue, so that I may know
        how to sustain the weary with words.
And^[c] morning after morning he wakens,
    and^[d] he wakens my ear to
        listen like those who are being taught.