^{2 Ref} 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 stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

^{3 Ref} I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

^{4 Ref} The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

^{5 Ref} The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

^{6 Ref} I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.