Isaiah 50:2-9 Why did I come and no man was there, did I call, with none to answer? hath my hand become too short for redeeming? or is there no power in me to deliver? behold, through my threatening I can dry up the sea, I can change the rivers into a wilderness: their fish stink for want of water, and die for thirst.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Why did I come and no man was there, did I call, with none to answer? hath my hand become too short for redeeming? or is there no power in me to deliver? behold, through my threatening I can dry up the sea, I can change the rivers into a wilderness: their fish stink for want of water, and die for thirst. ³ I can clothe the heavens with blackness, and I can make sackcloth their garment. ⁴ The Lord Eternal hath given me a tongue for teaching, that I should know how to strengthen the weary with the word: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to listen like those who are well taught. ⁵ The Lord Eternal hath opened me my ear, and I resisted not: I turned not backward. ⁶ My back I gave up to the smiters, and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: my face I hid not from abuse and spitting. ⁷ But the Lord Eternal ever helpeth me; therefore was I not confounded; therefore have I rendered my face like a flint, and I knew that I should not be made ashamed. ⁸ He that justifieth me is near; who will contend with me? let us stand forward together: who hath a dispute with me? let him come near to me. ⁹ Behold, the Lord Eternal will help me; who is the man that will condemn me? lo, they all shall wear out as a garment: the moth shall eat them up.