The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

 1 ^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.

 2 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.

 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

 4 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.

 5 ¶The Lord God hath opened mine ^aear, and I was not ^brebellious, neither turned away back.

 6 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.

 7 ¶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.

 8 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.

 9 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.

 10 ¶Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the ^avoice of his ^bservant, that walketh in ^cdarkness, and hath no ^dlight? let him ^etrust in the name of the Lord, and ^fstay upon his God.

 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the ^alight of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in ^bsorrow.