Isaiah 51:1-11
The Lord’s Comfort for Zion
1 a“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,you who seek the Lord:
look to the rock from which you were hewn,
and to the quarry from which you were dug.
2Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who bore you;
for bhe was but one when I called him,
that I might bless him and multiply him.
3For the Lord ccomforts Zion;
he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like dEden,
her desert like ethe garden of the Lord;
fjoy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the voice of song.
4 g“Give attention to me, my people,
and give ear to me, my nation;
hfor a law ▼
▼Or for teaching; also verse 7
will go out from me,and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
5 jMy righteousness draws near,
my salvation has gone out,
and my arms will judge the peoples;
kthe coastlands hope for me,
and for my arm they wait.
6 lLift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
mfor the heavens vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; ▼
▼Or will die like gnats
obut my salvation will be forever,
and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
7 p“Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
the people qin whose heart is my law;
rfear not the reproach of man,
nor be dismayed at their revilings.
8 sFor the moth will eat them up like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool,
tbut my righteousness will be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.”
9 uAwake, awake, vput on strength,
O warm of the Lord;
awake, xas in days of old,
the generations of long ago.
Was it not you who cut yRahab in pieces,
who pierced zthe dragon?
10 aaWas it not 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?
11 abAnd the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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