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1The 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.

2Why, 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.

3I clothe the heavens with blackness.

I make sackcloth their covering.”

4The 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.

5The Lord GOD has opened my ear.

I was not rebellious.

I have not turned back.

6I 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.

7For the Lord GOD will help me.

Therefore I have not been confounded.

Therefore I have set my face like a flint,

and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

8He who justifies me is near.

Who will bring charges against me?

Let us stand up together.

Who is my adversary?

Let him come near to me.

9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me!

Who is he who will condemn me?

Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.

The moths will eat them up.

10Who amongst you fears the LORD

and obeys the voice of his servant?

He who walks in darkness

and has no light,

let him trust in the LORD’s name,

and rely on his God.

11Behold, all you who kindle a fire,

who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves,

walk in the flame of your fire,

and amongst the torches that you have kindled.

You will have this from my hand:

you will lie down in sorrow.

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