1Thus saith the Lord , Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.[ † ]Deuteronomy 24:1Jeremiah 3:8Deuteronomy 32:302 Kings 4:1Nehemiah 5:5Isaiah 52:3 2Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.[ † ]Psalms 106:9Nahum 1:4
3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.[ † ]Exodus 10:21Isaiah 13:10Revelation 6:12
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.[ † ]Exodus 4:11Matthew 11:28 5The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.[ † ]Psalms 40:6Isaiah 35:5Matthew 26:39Mark 14:36Luke 22:42John 8:29John 14:31John 15:10Acts 26:19Philippians 2:8Hebrews 5:8Hebrews 10:7 6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.[ † ]Matthew 27:26John 18:22Matthew 26:67Matthew 27:30Mark 14:65Mark 15:19Lamentations 3:30 7For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.[ † ]Ezekiel 3:8-9Luke 9:51 8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.[ † ]Acts 2:24Romans 8:32-34 9Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.[ † ]Job 13:28Psalms 102:26Hebrews 1:11Isaiah 51:6-8
10Who is among you that feareth the Lord , that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord , and stay upon his God.[ † ]Psalms 23:42 Chronicles 20:20 11Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.[ † ]John 9:39Psalms 16:4