(A)Why, when I came, was there no man;
    why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
(B)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
(C)Behold, by my rebuke (D)I dry up the sea,
    (E)I make the rivers a desert;
(F)their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.
(G)I clothe the heavens with blackness
    and make sackcloth their covering.”

The Lord God has given (H)me
    the tongue of those who are taught,
that (I)I may know how to sustain with a word
    (J)him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
    he awakens my ear
    to hear as those who are taught.

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