Isaiah 50

1Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 21:7 · Lev 25:39 · Deut 24:1 · Deut 32:30 · 1Ki 21:25 · 2Ki 4:1 · +12 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Ex 7:18 · Ex 7:21 · Ex 14:21 · Ex 14:29 · Num 11:23 · +31 more

3I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”Cross-references: Ex 10:21 · Ps 18:11 · Matt 27:45 · Rev 6:12

4The Lord Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Ps 5:3 · Ps 45:2 · Ps 119:147 · Ps 143:8 · Prov 15:23 · +10 more

5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.Cross-references: Ps 40:6 · Isa 35:5 · Isa 48:8 · Matt 26:39 · John 8:29 · John 14:31 · +5 more

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.Cross-references: Neh 13:25 · Isa 53:5 · Lam 3:30 · Mic 5:1 · Matt 5:39 · Matt 26:67 · +7 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

7For the Lord Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ps 89:21 · Ps 110:1 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 49:8 · Isa 50:9 · Jer 1:18 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 22:9 · Deut 19:17 · Job 23:3 · Isa 41:1 · Isa 41:21 · Isa 43:26 · +5 more

9Behold, the Lord Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Job 13:28 · Ps 39:11 · Ps 102:26 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 51:6 · Heb 1:11

10Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.Cross-references: 1Sam 30:6 · 1Chr 5:20 · 2Chr 20:12 · 2Chr 20:20 · Job 13:15 · Job 23:8 · +29 more

11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.Cross-references: Ex 11:9 · Ps 16:4 · Ps 20:7 · Ps 32:10 · Prov 26:18 · Isa 8:22 · +19 more