Isaiah 50:1-3

EasyEnglish Bible

‘Did I send your mother away,
    like a man sends away his wife?
Where is the paper to say
    why I have sent her away?
Did I sell you to pay people that I was in debt to?
Where is the paper that shows
    the reason for my debt?
Listen! I sold you because of your sins.
I sent your mother away
    because you have not obeyed me.^[a]
2 Nobody was there to meet me,
    when I came to help you.
When I called out to you,
    nobody answered me.
Do you think that my arm is too weak to rescue you?
    Am I not strong enough to save you?
Look! I can speak to the sea so that it becomes dry!
    I can cause rivers to become deserts.
Then the fish die because they have no water.
³ I can cause the sky to become dark,
    as if I have covered it with sackcloth.’