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| 1 Thus saith Jehovah, 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 transgressions was your mother put away. |
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| 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. |
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| 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. |
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| 4 The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught. |
The Lord GOD – Adonai Jehovah. E52
Hath given me – Christ. E51
Jesus, the great teacher appointed by the master teacher, Jehovah, is himself taught of Jehovah. E51
Of the learned – Instructed. E51
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| 5 The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward. |
The Lord GOD – Adonai Jehovah. E52
Turned away back – From his teachings. E52
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| 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I turned not aside my face from shame and spitting. |
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| 7 For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. |
GOD will help me – On the assurances of the Lord we may rest. R5432:2
Set...like a flint – To do God's will, describing loyalty to God and his truth. R4670:5*
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I have set my face like a flint – This was prophetically said of Pastor Russell. Compare Eze. 3:8-9.
This is also true of the Lord's people today. Our face (forehead, intellect) is set like flint. Because the Lord has graced us with an understanding of Present Truth and we know that it is indeed THE TRUTH, we are determined to be faithful to His Word, and to Him. |
| 8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. |
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| 9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. |
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| 10 Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God. |
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| 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. |
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