ISA-51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye
that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and
to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.
ISA-51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that]
bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased
him.
ISA-51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all
her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall
be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
ISA-51:4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my
nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my
judgment to rest for a light of the people.
ISA-51:5 My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth,
and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon
me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
ISA-51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the
earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and
the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
ISA-51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people
in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
ISA-51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the
worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
ISA-51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake,
as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou
not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
ISA-51:10 [Art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters
of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way
for the ransomed to pass over?
ISA-51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and
come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon
their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and
mourning shall flee away.
ISA-51:12 I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art]
thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die,
and of the son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;
ISA-51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched
forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the
fury of the oppressor?
ISA-51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and
that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should
fail.
ISA-51:15 But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea,
whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
ISA-51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have
covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the
heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion,
Thou [art] my people.
ISA-51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk
at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken
the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.
ISA-51:18 [There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom]
she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her
by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up.
ISA-51:19 These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be
sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and
the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
ISA-51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of
the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
ISA-51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken,
but not with wine:
ISA-51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God [that]
pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of
thine hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of
my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
ISA-51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict
thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over:
and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street,
to them that went over.
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