Isaiah50

The Lord confronts Israel, stating their troubles are due to their own iniquities, not His lack of power or a formal divorce. A divine Servant then speaks, describing his anointing to minister to the weary and his steadfast obedience through suffering and persecution. The chapter concludes with an admonition for those in darkness to trust in the Lord, contrasting this with the sorrow awaiting those who rely on their own devices.

God Challenges Israel's Complaint

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Thus sayeth the Lord, Where is that bill of your mothers diuorcement, whome I haue cast off? or who is the creditour to whome I solde you? Beholde, for your iniquities are yee solde, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken.
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Wherefore came I, and there was no man? I called, and none answered: is mine hand so shortened, that it cannot helpe? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the Sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for want of water, and dieth for thirst.
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I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering.

The Obedience and Vindication of the Servant

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The Lord God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.
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The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.
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I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting.
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For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be ashamed.
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Hee is neere that iustifieth mee: who will contend with me? Let vs stande together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.
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Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp.

A Call to Trust the LORD

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Who is among you that feareth the Lord? let him heare the voyce of his seruant: hee that walketh in darkenesse, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and staye vpon his God.
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Beholde, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed about with sparkes: walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall ye haue of mine hand: ye shall lye downe in sorowe.
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