The Book of Isaiah (WEB)
51: 1Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock
whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug. 51:2Look to Abraham your
father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and
made him many. 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and
has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 51:4Attend to me, my people; and
give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a
light of the peoples. 51:5My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall
judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust. 51:6Lift up your eyes
to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and
the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but
my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 51:7Listen to me, you
who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men,
neither be you dismayed at their insults. 51:8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the
worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all
generations. 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the
generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
51:10Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a
way for the redeemed to pass over? 51:11The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with
singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 51:12I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you
are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass; 51:13and have
forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the
earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready
to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? 51:14The captive exile shall speedily be loosed;
and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither shall his bread fail. 51:15For I am Yahweh your
God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar: Yahweh of Hosts is his name. 51:16I have put
my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the
heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people. 51:17Awake, awake,
stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have
drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. 51:18There is none to guide her among all
the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the
sons who she has brought up. 51:19These two things are befallen you, who shall bemoan you?
desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you? 51:20Your 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 Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. 51:21Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but
now with wine: 51:22Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads 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: 51:23and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict
you, who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as
the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.
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