Isaiah 50:3-5

International Children’s Bible

³I can make the skies dark.
I can make them black like clothes of sadness.”

God’s Servant Obeys

⁴The Lord God gave me the ability to teach.
    He has taught me what to say to make the weak strong.
Every morning he wakes me.
    He teaches me to listen like a student.
⁵The Lord God helps me learn.
    And I have not turned against him.
    I have not stopped following him.

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Isaiah 50:3-5

King James Version

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

⁴The 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.

⁵The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

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Isaiah 50:3-5

New International Version

³I clothe the heavens with darkness^(A)
and make sackcloth^(B) its covering.”

⁴The Sovereign Lord^(C) has given me a well-instructed tongue,^(D)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.^(E)
He wakens me morning by morning,^(F)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.^(G)
⁵The Sovereign Lord^(H) has opened my ears;^(I)
    I have not been rebellious,^(J)
    I have not turned away.