American King James Version
"The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. "
— Isaiah 50:5, American King James Version
“The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.”
“The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward. ”
“The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.”
“The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.”
“The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.”
“And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.”
“The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.”
Why, 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 stinks, because there is no water, and dies for thirst.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned. ¶
The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
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. ¶
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is my adversary? let him come near to me.