Isaiah Chapter 51
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. |
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 ![]() |
51:6 | Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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. |
51:8 | For the moth shall eat them up like a ![]() ![]() ![]() |
51:9 | Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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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 comforteth you: who ![]() |
51:13 | And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the ![]() ![]() |
51:14 | The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his ![]() |
51:15 | But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name. |
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 ![]() ![]() |
51:17 | Awake, awake, stand up, O ![]() |
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. |
51:19 | These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the ![]() |
51:20 | Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a ![]() |
51:21 | Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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. |