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the captivity shall be taken away from the 7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I
strong: and that which was taken by the mighty, not confounded: therefore have I set my face as
shall be delivered. But I will judge those that a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be
have judged thee, and thy children I will save. confounded.
26 And I will feed thy enemies with their own 8 He is near that justifieth me, who will con-
flesh: and they shall be made drunk with their tend with me? let us stand together, who is my
own blood, as with new wine: and all flesh shall adversary? let him come near to me.
know, that I am the Lord that save thee, and 9 Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is
thy Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob. he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be
destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them
up.
Chapter 50 10 Who is there among you that feareth the
Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that
Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the
hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? let
divorce of your mother, with which I have put him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon
her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold
his God.
you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and
11 Behold all you that kindle a fire, encom-
for your wicked deeds have I put your mother
passed with flames, walk in the light of your fire,
away.
and in the flames which you have kindled: this
2 Because I came, and there was not a man:
is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in
I called, and there was none that would hear.
sorrows.
Is my hand shortened and become little, that I
cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me
to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the Chapter 51
sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land:
the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall Give ear to me, you that follow that which is
die for thirst. just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the
3 I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the
will make sackcloth their covering. pit from which you are dug out.
4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara
that I should know how to uphold by word him that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed
that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in him, and multiplied him.
the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may 3 The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and
hear him as a master. will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will
5 The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her
do not resist: I have not gone back. wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and
6 I have given my body to the strikers, and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving,
my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have and the voice of praise.
not turned away my face from them that rebuked 4 Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear
me, and spit upon me. to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from