1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? 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? behold, at my rebuke I dry 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 learned, that I should know how to speak a word 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 ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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 justifieth 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 old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 ¶ Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
1 haec dicit Dominus
quis est hic liber repudii matris vestrae quo dimisi eam
aut quis est creditor meus cui vendidi vos
ecce in iniquitatibus vestris venditi estis
et in sceleribus vestris dimisi matrem vestram
2 quia veni et non erat vir vocavi et non erat qui audiret
numquid adbreviata et parvula facta est manus mea
ut non possim redimere
aut non est in me virtus ad liberandum
ecce in increpatione mea desertum faciam mare
ponam flumina in siccum
conputrescent pisces sine aqua et morientur in siti
3 induam caelos tenebris et saccum ponam operimentum eorum
4 Dominus dedit mihi linguam eruditam
ut sciam sustentare eum qui lassus est verbo
erigit mane mane erigit mihi aurem
ut audiam quasi magistrum
5 Dominus Deus aperuit mihi aurem
ego autem non contradico retrorsum non abii
6 corpus meum dedi percutientibus et genas meas vellentibus
faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus et
conspuentibus
7 Dominus Deus auxiliator meus ideo non sum confusus
ideo posui faciem meam ut petram durissimam
et scio quoniam non confundar
8 iuxta est qui iustificat me
quis contradicet mihi stemus simul
quis est adversarius meus accedat ad me
9 ecce Dominus Deus auxiliator meus quis est qui condemnet me
ecce omnes quasi vestimentum conterentur
tinea comedet eos
10 quis ex vobis timens Dominum
audiens vocem servi sui
qui ambulavit in tenebris et non est lumen ei
speret in nomine Domini et innitatur super Deum suum
11 ecce omnes vos accendentes ignem accincti flammis
ambulate in lumine ignis vestri et in flammis quas succendistis
de manu mea factum est hoc vobis in doloribus dormietis