Isaiah 50
1 Thus says Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.
Hæc dicit Dominus: Quis est hic liber repudii matris vestræ, quo dimisi eam? Aut quis est creditor meus, cui vendidi vos? Ecce in iniquitatibus vestris venditi estis, et in sceleribus vestris dimisi matrem vestram.
2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot 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 for thirst.
Quia veni, et non erat vir: vocavi, et non erat qui audiret. Numquid abbreviata et parvula facta est manus mea, ut non possim redimere? Aut non est in me virtus ad liberandum? Ecce in increpatione mea desertum faciam mare, ponam flumina in siccum: computrescent pisces sine aqua, et morientur in siti.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Induam cælos tenebris, et saccum ponam operimentum eorum.
4 The lord Jehovah 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.
Dominus dedit mihi linguam eruditam, ut sciam sustentare eum, qui lassus est verbo: erigit mane, mane erigit mihi aurem, ut audiam quasi magistrum.
5 The lord Jehovah has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backward.
Dominus Deus aperuit mihi aurem, ego autem non contradico: retrorsum non abii.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
Corpus meum dedi percutientibus, et genas meas vellentibus: faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus, et conspuentibus in me.
7 For the lord Jehovah will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
Dominus Deus auxiliator meus, ideo non sum confusus: ideo posui faciem meam ut petram durissimam, et scio quoniam non confundar.
8 He is near who justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Iuxta est qui iustificat me, quis contradicet mihi? Stemus simul, quis est adversarius meus? Accedat ad me.
9 Behold, the lord Jehovah will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Ecce Dominus Deus auxiliator meus: quis est qui condemnet me? Ecce omnes quasi vestimentum conterentur, tinea comedet eos.
10 Who is among you that fears Jehovah, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God.
Quis ex vobis timens Dominum, audiens vocem servi sui? Qui ambulavit in tenebris, et non est lumen ei, speret in nomine Domini, et innitatur super Deum suum.
11 Behold, all ye who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands, walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This ye shall have from my hand. Ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Ecce vos omnes accendentes ignem accincti flammis, ambulate in lumine ignis vestri, et in flammis, quas succendistis: de manu mea factum est hoc vobis, in doloribus dormietis.
