Isaiah — Chapter 50
Isaiah speaks as the Messiah—He will have the tongue of the learned—He will give His back to the smiters—He will not be confounded—Compare 2 Nephi 7.
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aThus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s bdivorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your ciniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your dmother put away.
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Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my ahand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no bpower to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I cdry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the alearned, that I should know how to speak a bword in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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I agave my bback to the csmiters, and my dcheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I ehid not my face from fshame and gspitting.
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¶ For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
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He is near that ajustifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
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Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax aold as a garment; the bmoth shall eat them up.