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| [1]Thus saith the Lord, Where is that bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have cast off? Or who is the creditor to whom I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities are ye sold, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken. |
[1]Thus saith the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, ye are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away. |
| [2]Wherefore came I, and there was no man? I called, and none answered: is mine hand so shortened, that it cannot help? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for want of water, and dieth for thirst. |
[2]Why did I come, and there was no man? why did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst. |
| [3]I clothe the heavens with darkness, and make a sack their covering. |
[3]I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth. |
| [4]The Lord God hath given me a tongue of the learned, that I should know to minister a word in time to him that is weary: he will raise me up in the morning: in the morning he will waken mine ear to hear, as the learned. |
[4]The Lord even God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear: |
| [5]The Lord God hath opened mine ear and I was not rebellious, neither turned I back. |
[5]and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute. |
| [6]I gave my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. |
[6]I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting: |
| [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. |
[7]but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never 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. |
[8]for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: yea, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw nigh to me. |
| [9]Behold, the Lord God will help me: who is he that can condemn me? Lo, they shall wax old as a garment: the moth shall eat them up. |
[9]Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all ye shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you. |
| [10]Who is among you that feareth the Lord? Let him hear the voice of his servant: he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. |
[10]Who is among you that fears the Lord? let him hearken to the voice of his servant: ye that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God. |
| [11]Behold, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed 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. |
[11]Behold, ye all kindle a fire, and feed a flame: walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which ye have kindled. This has happened to you for my sake; ye shall lie down in sorrow. |