Isaiah 50:1-3

International Children’s Bible

“People of Israel, you say I divorced your mother.
    Then where is the paper that proves it?
Or do you think I sold you to pay a debt?
No! It was because of the evil things you did that I sold you.
    It was because of the times she turned against me that your mother was sent away.
² I came home and found no one there.
    I called, but no one answered.
Do you think I am not able to save you?
    Do I not have the power to save you?
Look, I need only to shout, and the sea becomes dry.
    I change rivers into a desert.
Their fish rot because there is no water.
    The fish die of thirst.
³ I can make the skies dark.
    I can make them black like clothes of sadness.”