46 "Yea, " for thus saith the Lord, "have I put thee away? Or have I cast thee off forever?"
47 For thus saith the Lord: "Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement?
48 To whom have I put thee away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you?
49 Yea, to whom have I sold you?
50 Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, And for your transgressions is your mother put away.
51 Wherefore, when I came, there was no man. When I called, yea, there was none to answer.
52 O house of Israel, Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver?
53 Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea - I make the rivers a wilderness, And their fish to stink because the waters are dried up, And they dieth because of thirst.
54 I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering.
55 "The Lord God hath given Me the tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak a word in season unto thee, O house of Israel,
56 when ye are weary. He wakeneth morning by morning,