Isaiah 50:2-4

Common English Bible

² Why did I come and find no one?
    Why did I call when no one answered?
Is my hand too small to redeem you?^[a]
    Don’t I have enough power to save?
With my rebuke I dry up the sea
    and make the rivers into wilderness.
Their fish stink from lack of water;
    they die of thirst.
³ I clothe the heavens with darkness
    and cover them with funeral clothing.