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Isaiah 50:2

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Why, 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.

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Isaiah 50:2 in other translations

Wherefore, 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.

Isaiah 50:2 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 50:2 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 3I clothe the heavens with blackness.
    I make sackcloth their covering.”
  4. 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.