Isaias

L. 1 Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away.

2 Why came I, and there was no man? Whycalled I, and. there was none that answered? Is my hand utterly too shortened to redeem? and is there no power in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I will dry up the sea, I will make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for want of water, and die with thirst.