I clothe the heavens with blackness.
I make sackcloth their covering.”
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.
He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
The Lord GOD has opened my ear.
I was not rebellious.
I have not turned back.
I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.
I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.