Isaiah 51 : 1 (LITV)
Hear Me, pursuers of righteousness, seekers of Jehovah: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the hollow of the pit from which you were dug.
Isaiah 51 : 2 (LITV)
Look to your father Abraham, and to Sarah who bore you. For he being but one, I called him and blessed him and increased him.
Isaiah 51 : 3 (LITV)
For Jehovah comforts Zion. He comforts all her desolations, and He makes her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of singing praise.
Isaiah 51 : 4 (LITV)
Hear Me, My people; yea, give ear to Me, My nation. For a law shall go out from Me, and My justice I will make rest as light to peoples.
Isaiah 51 : 5 (LITV)
My righteousness is near; My salvation went out; and My arms shall judge peoples; coastlands shall wait on Me, and they shall hope on My arm.
Isaiah 51 : 6 (LITV)
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment; and those living in it shall die in the same way, but My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.
Isaiah 51 : 7 (LITV)
Hear Me, those knowing righteousness, the people of My Law in their heart; do not fear the reproach of man, and do not be bowed from their blasphemings.
Isaiah 51 : 8 (LITV)
For the moth shall eat them like a garment; yea, the moth worm shall eat them like wool. But My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation shall be from generation to generation.
Isaiah 51 : 9 (LITV)
Awake! Awake! Arm of Jehovah, put on strength. Awake, as in days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You cutting in pieces Rahab, and piercing the sea monster?
Isaiah 51 : 10 (LITV)
Was it not You drying up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who set the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass?
Isaiah 51 : 11 (LITV)
Yea, the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be on their head; gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and sighing shall flee.
Isaiah 51 : 12 (LITV)
I, I am He comforting you. Who are you, that you should fear from man? He shall die! And from the son of man? He is given as grass.
Isaiah 51 : 13 (LITV)
And you forget your Maker Jehovah, who has stretched out the heavens and founded the earth. And you dread continually, every day, from the fury of the oppressor, since he was ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah 51 : 14 (LITV)
Bowed down, he hurries to be freed, that he not die in the pit, nor that he lack his bread.
Isaiah 51 : 15 (LITV)
But I am Jehovah your God, stirring up the sea and making its waves roar; Jehovah of Hosts is His name.
Isaiah 51 : 16 (LITV)
And I have put My Words in your mouth, and covered you in the shade of My hand, to plant the heavens and found the earth, and to say to Zion, You are My people.
Isaiah 51 : 17 (LITV)
Awake! Awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, who drank the cup of His fury from the hand of Jehovah; you drank the bowl of the cup of reeling; you fully drained it.
Isaiah 51 : 18 (LITV)
No guide is for her among all the sons she has borne; and of all the sons she made to grow none makes strong her hand.
Isaiah 51 : 19 (LITV)
Those two things came to you; who shall grieve for you? Ruin and shattering and famine and the sword, who but I shall comfort you?
Isaiah 51 : 20 (LITV)
Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net, filled with the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 51 : 21 (LITV)
So hear this now, afflicted one, and drunken, but not from wine:
Isaiah 51 : 22 (LITV)
So says your Lord Jehovah and your God, He strives for His people. Behold, I have taken the cup of reeling out of your hand, the bowl of the cup of My fury; you shall not yet again drink it.
Isaiah 51 : 23 (LITV)
But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and, Put your back to the ground, and as the street to those who cross.
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