1Adonai 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 depravities (moral evils), and your mother was put away for your rebellious breaches of relationships.

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 for thirst.

3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” ¹⁸⁶

4¹⁸⁷'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] has given me the tongue of those who are taught, ¹⁸⁸that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to sh'ma ·hear obey· as those who are taught.

5¹⁸⁹'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious.
I have not turned back.

6¹⁹⁰I gave my back to those who beat me, ¹⁹¹and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.
¹⁹²I didn’t hide my face from insult ¹⁹³and spitting. ¹⁹⁴

7For 'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. ¹⁹⁵Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.

8¹⁹⁶He who declares me righteous me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my mishpat · adversary·?
Let him come near to me.

9Behold, 'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] will help me! Who is he who will condemn me as guilty? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

10¹⁹⁷Who among you fears Adonai , and sh'ma ·hears obeys· the voice of his servant? ¹⁹⁸He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Adonai ’s name, and rely on his God.

11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand:
You will lie down in sorrow.