Isaiah 50

³⁰How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?

⁸She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

²⁵Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

¹Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”

⁵We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

³For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

¹Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

⁴So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

²³The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

¹⁶the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

¹⁴Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

²⁴Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

¹²And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,

¹¹He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

¹²From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.

²¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”

⁴⁵From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

¹⁵For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

⁹Then the Lord reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

¹⁵The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”

¹⁶“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.

¹¹And the Lord said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

¹²Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”

¹¹A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

²³A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!

³¹But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

⁸Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.

⁸And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

⁵Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

²⁹He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

³⁹Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

⁶⁷Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him

⁶⁵Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.

¹⁹They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they knelt down and bowed before Him.

⁶³The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.

⁶⁴They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”

³⁰Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.

⁵But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

⁶So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

⁸Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

⁹I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

³³I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

¹“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

¹⁶I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

²¹My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.

²²No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

³²He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

³³Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

¹⁰And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.

¹“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.

²¹“Present your case,” says the Lord. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.

²⁶Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.

¹⁷both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the Lord, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.

²⁸So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

¹¹They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.

¹²You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

²⁶They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.

¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

¹¹You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

⁶Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

⁷Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

⁴⁶I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

³You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.

⁴Trust in the Lord forever, because God the Lord is the Rock eternal.

⁷But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

⁸Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

¹²Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

⁴Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

¹³Still I am certain to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

⁵This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord.

⁶He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

²⁴That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

³Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

⁶he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

⁷You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:

⁷Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

⁸They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.