Isaiah 50 (NET)

Isaiah 50:1¹This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:30Jer 3:8Matt 18:252 Kgs 4:1Neh 5:5Isa 52:3Deut 24:1-4Hos 2:2-42 Kgs 17:17Isa 59:1-2

Isaiah 50:2²Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:1Isa 66:4Num 11:23Josh 3:16Gen 18:14Prov 1:24Exod 14:21Exod 7:21Hos 11:7Isa 42:15

Isaiah 50:3³I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 6:12Ps 18:11-12Exod 10:21Matt 27:45

Isaiah 50:4⁴The Sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 21:15Jer 1:9John 7:15-17Exod 4:11-12Prov 25:11Prov 15:23Ps 143:8Ps 119:147Ps 5:3Isa 57:15-19

Isaiah 50:5⁵The Sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:31Heb 5:8Isa 35:5Phil 2:8John 8:29Isa 48:8John 15:10Matt 26:39Ps 40:6-8Acts 26:19

Isaiah 50:6⁶I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 26:67Mark 14:65Mark 15:19Luke 22:63-64Matt 27:30Isa 53:5Lam 3:30John 18:22Heb 12:2Matt 5:39

Isaiah 50:7⁷But the Sovereign Lord helps me, so I am not humiliated. For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; I know I will not be put to shame.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:6Ezek 3:8-9John 16:33Isa 42:1Rom 1:16Luke 9:51Ps 89:21-271 Pet 4:161 Pet 4:1Isa 49:8

Isaiah 50:8⁸The one who vindicates me is close by. Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! Who is my accuser? Let him challenge me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:32-34Isa 41:1Rev 12:10Isa 41:21Isa 43:261 Tim 3:16Deut 19:17Exod 22:9Matt 5:25Zech 3:1-10

Isaiah 50:9⁹Look, the Sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 13:28Heb 1:11-12Isa 41:10Ps 102:26Isa 51:6-8Ps 39:11

Isaiah 50:10¹⁰Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:46Isa 26:3-4Mic 7:7-9John 8:12Ps 23:4Ps 27:13-14Lam 3:25-26Ps 25:14Heb 5:9Isa 9:2

Isaiah 50:11¹¹Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with flaming arrows, walk in the light of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! This is what you will receive from me: you will lie down in a place of pain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 17:5-7Rom 1:21-22Rom 10:3John 8:24Matt 15:6-8Ps 20:7-8Isa 28:15-20Jonah 2:8Rev 19:20Exod 11:9-10