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Chapter 50
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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. |
3
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering. |
4
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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. |
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The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back. |
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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. |
