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¹ Thus says the Lord:
"Where is ^(a)your mother's certificate of divorce,
    with which ^(b)I sent her away?
Or ^(c)which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
^(d)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
^2 (e)Why, when I came, was there no man;
    why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
^(f)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
^(g)Behold, by my rebuke ^(h)I dry up the sea,
    ⁽ⁱ⁾I make the rivers a desert;
^(j)their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.
^3 (k)I clothe the heavens with blackness
    and make sackcloth their covering."

⁴ The Lord God has given ^(l)me
    the tongue of those who are taught,
that ^(m)I may know how to sustain with a word
    ⁽ⁿ⁾him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
    he awakens my ear
    to hear as those who are taught.
^5 (o)The Lord God has opened my ear,
    ^(p)and I was not rebellious;
    I turned not backward.
^6 (q)I gave my back to those who strike,
    and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
    from disgrace and spitting.

⁷ But the Lord God helps me;
    therefore I have not been disgraced;
^(r)therefore I have set my face like a flint,
    and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
^{8     (s)}He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
    Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
    Let him come near to me.
^9 (t)Behold, the Lord God helps me;
    who will declare me guilty?
Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;
    the moth will eat them up.

¹⁰ Who among you fears the Lord
    and obeys ^(u)the voice of his servant?
^(v)Let him who walks in darkness
    and has no light
trust in the name of the Lord
    and rely on his God.
¹¹ Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
    who equip yourselves with burning torches!
Walk by the light of your fire,
    and by the torches that you have kindled!
^(w)This you have from my hand:
    you shall lie down in torment.