Why was no one there when I came?
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is my arm too weak to redeem?(A)
Or do I have no power to rescue?
Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;(B)
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.
I dress the heavens in black
and make sackcloth their covering.(C)

The Obedient Servant

The Lord God has given me
the tongue of those who are instructed(D)
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens me each morning;
he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.(E)

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