Isaiah 50:2

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Isaiah 50:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

2 Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

3 I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

4 The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

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Isaiah 66:4

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Proverbs 1:24

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Jeremiah 5:1

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Jeremiah 7:13

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Jeremiah 8:6

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Is 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.”

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

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Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

2 Chronicles 32:15

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Daniel 3:15

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Daniel 3:29

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Psalms 114:3

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Psalms 114:4

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Exodus 7:21

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