OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 3

Isaiah 50:3

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I clothe the heavens with blackness.

I make sackcloth their covering.”

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Isaiah 50:1–6

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 of thirst.

3
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I clothe the heavens with blackness.

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 awakens morning by morning,

he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

5

The Lord GOD has opened my ear.

I was not rebellious.

I have not turned back.

6

I gave my back to those who beat me,

and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.

I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

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