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 can not redeem, or have I no power to deliver?
53 Behold, at my rebuke, I dry up the sea, I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink, because the waters are dried up; and they die because of thirst.
54 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their coverings.
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 waketh morning by morning.
