Isaiah 50:1-51:11

New King James Version

“Where is ^(A)the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My ^(B)creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities ^(C)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 ^(D)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 (E)I clothe the heavens with blackness,
^(F)And I make sackcloth their covering.”

⁴ “The^(G) Lord God has given Me
The tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is ^(H)weary.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear
To hear as the learned.
⁵ The Lord God ^(I)has opened My ear;
And I was not ^(J)rebellious,
Nor did I turn away.
^6 (K)I gave My back to those who struck Me,
And ^(L)My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;
I did not hide My face from shame and ^(M)spitting.

⁷ “For the Lord God will help Me;
Therefore I will not be disgraced;
Therefore ^(N)I have set My face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.
^8 (O)He is near who justifies Me;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand together.
Who is ^[a]My adversary?
Let him come near Me.
⁹ Surely the Lord God will help Me;
Who is he who will condemn Me?
^(P)Indeed they will all grow old like a garment;
^(Q)The moth will eat them up.

¹⁰ “Who among you fears the Lord?
Who obeys the voice of His Servant?
Who ^(R)walks in darkness
And has no light?
^(S)Let him trust in the name of the Lord
And rely upon his God.
¹¹ Look, all you who kindle a fire,
Who encircle yourselves with sparks:
Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—
^(T)This you shall have from My hand:
You shall lie down ^(U)in torment.

³ For the Lord will ^(AA)comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert ^(AB)like the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

⁴ “Listen to Me, My people;
And give ear to Me, O My nation:
^(AC)For law will proceed from Me,
And I will make My justice rest
^(AD)As a light of the peoples.
^5 (AE)My righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
^(AF)And My arms will judge the peoples;
^(AG)The coastlands will wait upon Me,
And ^(AH)on My arm they will trust.
^6 (AI)Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look on the earth beneath.
For ^(AJ)the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
^(AK)The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be ^(AL)forever,
And My righteousness will not be ^[c]abolished.

⁷ “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
You people ^(AM)in whose heart is My law:
^(AN)Do not fear the reproach of men,
Nor be afraid of their insults.
⁸ For ^(AO)the moth will eat them up like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool;
But My righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation from generation to generation.”

^9 (AP)Awake, awake, ^(AQ)put on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake ^(AR)as in the ancient days,
In the generations of old.
^(AS)Are You not the arm that cut ^(AT)Rahab apart,
And wounded the ^(AU)serpent?

¹⁰ Are You not the One who ^(AV)dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
That made the depths of the sea a road
For the redeemed to cross over?
¹¹ So ^(AW)the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness;
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.