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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 51
51:1 Hearken to me, all of you that follow after righteousness, all
of you that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence all of you are hewn,
and to the hole of the pit whence all of you are dug.
51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for
I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
51:7 Hearken unto me, all of you that know righteousness, the people
in whose heart is my law; fear all of you not the reproach of men, neither
be all of you afraid of their revilings.
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.
51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in
the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
51:10 Are you not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great
deep; that has made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass
over?
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.
51:12 I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should
be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be
made as grass;
51:13 And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the
heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have 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?
51:14 The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he
should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
51:15 But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves
roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you
in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations
of the earth, and say unto Zion, You are my people.
51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which have drunk at the
hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunken the dregs of the
cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought
forth; neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons
that she has brought up.
51:19 These two things are come unto you; who shall be sorry for you?
desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall
I comfort you?
51:20 Your 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 your God.
51:21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not
with wine:
51:22 Thus says your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause
of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling,
even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:
51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which
have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid
your body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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