Isaiah 50:1

You contended with them by driving them away, by making them forlorn. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

“Remember this, and be assured; Cause it to return to your heart, you transgressors.

“For Yahweh has called you, Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” Says your God.

“Call out from your throat, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, And declare to My people their transgression And to the house of Jacob their sins.

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away.

“And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

“Your ways and your deeds Have done these things to you. This is your evil. How bitter! How it has touched your heart!”

“Contend with your mother, contend, For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her remove her harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts,

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