1 The Servant, Israel’s Hope Thus says the Lord : “Where is Deut. 24:1; Jer. 3:8 the certificate of your mother’s divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My Deut. 32:30;2 Kin. 4:1; Neh. 5:5 creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities Is. 52:3 you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.
2 Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, 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? Indeed with My Ps. 106:9; Nah. 1:4 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 Ex. 10:21 I clothe the heavens with blackness, Is. 13:10; Rev. 6:12 And I make sackcloth their covering.”
4 “The Ex. 4:11 Lord God has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is Matt. 11:28 weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.
5 The Lord God Ps. 40:6; Is. 35:5 has opened My ear; And I was not Matt. 26:39; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 8:29; 14:31; 15:10; Acts 26:19; (Phil. 2:8; Heb. 5:8; 10:7) rebellious, Nor did I turn away.
6 Matt. 27:26; John 18:22 I gave My back to those who struck Me, And Matt. 26:67; 27:30; Mark 14:65; 15:19 My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and Lam. 3:30 spitting.
7 “For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore Ezek. 3:8, 9; Luke 9:51 I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.
8 Acts 2:24; (Rom. 8:32–34) He is near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.
9 Surely the Lord God will help Me; Who is he who will condemn Me? Job 13:28; Ps. 102:26; Heb. 1:11 Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; Is. 51:6, 8 The moth will eat them up.
10 “Who among you fears the Lord ? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who Ps. 23:4 walks in darkness And has no light? 2 Chr. 20:20 Let him trust in the name of the Lord And rely upon his God.
11 Look, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with sparks: Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled— (John 9:39) This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down Ps. 16:4 in torment.