Isaiah
51
- "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness
and who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the
quarry from which you were hewn;
- look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah,
who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one, and I blessed him and
made him many.
- The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will
look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden,
her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found
in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
- "Listen to me, my people; hear me,
my nation: The law will go out from me; my justice will become a light to
the nations.
- My righteousness draws near speedily, my
salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The
islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.
- Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at
the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear
out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will
last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
- "Hear me, you who know what is right,
you people who have my law in your hearts: Do not fear the reproach of men
or be terrified by their insults.
- For the moth will eat them up like a garment;
the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever,
my salvation through all generations."
- Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength,
O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was
it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through
?
- Was it not you who dried up the sea, the
waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that
the redeemed might cross over ?
- The ransomed of the LORD will return. They
will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness
and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
- "I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you that you fear mortal men, the sons of men, who are but grass,
- that you forget the LORD your Maker, who
stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, that you
live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who
is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor
?
- The cowering prisoners will soon be set
free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
- For I am the LORD your God, who churns up
the sea so that its waves roar --
the LORD Almighty is his name.
- I have put my words in your mouth and covered
you with the shadow of my hand --
I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth,
and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.'"
- Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you
who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, you who have
drained to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger.
- Of all the sons she bore there was none
to guide her; of all the sons she reared there was none to take her by the
hand.
- These double calamities have come upon you
-- who can comfort you?--ruin and destruction,
famine and sword -- who
can console you ?
- Your sons have fainted; they lie at the
head of every street, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with
the wrath of the LORD and the rebuke of your God.
- Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,
made drunk, but not with wine.
- This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your
God, who defends his people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the
cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will
never drink again.
- I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
who said to you, 'Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.' And you made
your back like the ground, like a street to be walked over."
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