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Isaiah 51

¹Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence ye were digged. ²Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many. ³For YHWH hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. ⁴Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples. ⁵My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust. ⁶Lift 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. ⁷Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heare is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings. ⁸For 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 unto all generations. ⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not you that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster? ¹⁰Is it not you that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? ¹¹And the ransomed of YHWH shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away. ¹²I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who are thou, that you are afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass; ¹³and hast forgotten YHWH your Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? ¹⁴The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail. ¹⁵For I am YHWH your God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: YHWH of hosts is his name. ¹⁶And I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou are my people. ¹⁷Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of YHWH the cup of his wrath; you hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. ¹⁸There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up. ¹⁹These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee? ²⁰Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of your God. ²¹Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine: ²²Thus saith your Lord Jehovah, and your God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again: ²³and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you hast laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

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