Isaiah 50:2-4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² Why was no one there when I came?
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is my arm too weak to redeem?^(A)
Or do I have no power to rescue?
Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;^(B)
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.
³ I dress the heavens in black
and make sackcloth their covering.^(C)

⁴ The Lord God has given me
the tongue of those who are instructed^(D)
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens me each morning;
he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.^(E)