Isaiah 50:3-5

International Standard Version

³ I clothe the skies with darkness
    and make sackcloth their covering.”

⁴ “The Lord God has given me
    a learned tongue, so that I may know
        how to sustain the weary with words.
And^[a] morning after morning he wakens,
    and^[b] he wakens my ear to
        listen like those who are being taught.
⁵ My Lord God^[c] has opened my ears,
    and I did not rebel;
        I did not shrink back.