Isaiah 50:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is your mother’s bill of divorce,
    with which I put her away?
Or which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was put away.
² Why, when I came, was there no man?
    When I called, was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,
    I make the rivers a desert;
their fish stink for lack of water,
    and die of thirst.
³ I clothe the heavens with blackness,
    and make sackcloth their covering.”