Salvation Only through the Lord’s Servant, Isaiah 50:1-8

1. Thus says of the Lord:

   Where is the bill of divorce

   with which I dismissed your mother?

   Or to which of my credit

   have I sold you?

   It was for your sin that you were sold,

   for your crimes that your mother was

   dismissed.

2. Why was no one there when I came? Why did no one answer when I called? Is my hand too short to ransom? Have I not the strength to deliver?

   Lo, with my rebuke I dry up the sea,

   I turn rivers into a desert;

   Their fish rot for lack of water,

   and die of thirst.

3. I clothe the heaven in mourning, And make sackcloth their vesture.

4. The Lord GOD has given me A well-trained tongue,

   That I might know how to speak to the

   weary

   A word that will rouse them.

   Morning after morning.

   he opens my ear that I may hear;

5. And I have not rebelled, have not turned back

6. I gave my back to those who beat me,

   My checks to those who plucked my

   beard;

   My face I did not shield

   from buffets and spitting

7. The Lord GOD is my help,

   therefore, I am not disgraced;

   I have set my face like flint,

   knowing that I shall not be put to shame

8. He is near who upholds my right;

   If anyone wishes to oppose me,

   let us appear together

   Who disputes my right?

   Let him confront me

9. See, the Lord GOD is my help;

   who will prove me wrong?

   Lo, they will all wear out like cloth,

   The moth will eat them up.

10. Who among you fear the LORD

    heeds his servant's voice,

    And walks in darkness

    Without any light,

    Trusting in the name of the Lord

    and relying on his God

11. All of you Kindle flames

    and carry about you fiery darts;

    Walk by the light of your own fire,

    and by the flares of you have burnt!

    This is your fate for my hand:

    you shall lie down in a place of pain.