Isaiah 51–53

51^aHearken to me, ^bye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord:

^cLook unto the rock whence ye are hewn,

And to the hole of ^dthe pit whence ye are digged.

²Look unto ^eAbraham your father,

And unto ^fSarah that bare you:

^gFor I called him ^halone,

And ^giblessed him, and ^gincreased him.

³For the Lord ^kshall comfort Zion:

He will comfort all ^lher waste places;

And he will make her wilderness like ^mEden,

And her desert ⁿlike the garden of the Lord;

Joy and gladness shall be found therein,

Thanksgiving, and ^othe voice of melody.

^4aHearken unto me, my people;

And ^pgive ear unto me, O my nation:

For ^qa law shall proceed from me,

And I will ^rmake my judgment to rest ^sfor a light of the people.

^5tMy righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth,

And ^umine arms shall judge the people;

^vThe isles shall wait upon me,

And on mine arm shall they trust.

^6wLift up your eyes to the heavens,

And look upon the earth beneath:

For ^xthe heavens shall vanish away like smoke,

And ^ythe earth shall wax old like a garment,

And they that dwell therein shall die ^zin like manner:

But my salvation shall be for ever,

And my righteousness shall not be abolished.

^7aHearken unto me, ye that know righteousness,

The people ^bin whose heart is my law;

^cFear ye not the reproach of men,

Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

⁸For ^dthe 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 from generation to generation.

^9eAwake, awake, ^fput on strength, ^gO arm of the Lord;

Awake, as ^hin the ancient days, in the generations of old.

Art thou not it ⁱthat hath cut ^kRahab, and wounded ^lthe dragon?

¹⁰Art thou not it which hath ^mdried the sea, the waters of the great deep;

That hath made the depths of the sea a way for ⁿthe ransomed to pass over?

^11oTherefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return,

^oAnd come with singing unto Zion;

^oAnd everlasting joy shall be upon their head:

^oThey shall obtain gladness and joy;

^oAnd sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

¹²I, even I, am ^phe that comforteth you:

^ppWho art thou, that thou shouldest ^qbe afraid of a man that shall die,

And of the son of man which shall be made ^ras grass;

^13ppAnd ^sforgettest the Lord ^tthy maker,

^uThat hath stretched forth the heavens, and ^vlaid the foundations of the earth;

And hast feared continually every day because of the fury of ^wthe oppressor,

As if he ^||were ready to destroy?

And ^xwhere is the fury of the oppressor?

^14yThe captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,

And ^zthat he should not die ^ain the pit,

Nor that his bread should fail.

¹⁵But I am the Lord thy God,

^bThat ^cdivided the sea, whose waves roared:

^bThe Lord of hosts is his name.

¹⁶And ^dI have put my words in thy mouth,

And ^eI have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand,

That I may plant the heavens, and ^flay the foundations of the earth,

And say unto Zion, ^gThou art my people.

^17hAwake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem,

ⁱWhich hast drunk at the hand of the Lord ^kthe cup of his fury;

^lThou hast drunken ^kthe dregs of ^mthe cup of trembling, and ^lwrung them out.

¹⁸ⁿThere 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.

^19oThese two things ^†are come unto thee; who shall be ^psorry for thee?

Desolation, and ^†destruction, and the famine, and the sword:

^qBy whom shall I ^pcomfort thee?

^20qqThy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as ^ra wild bull ^sin a net:

They are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

²¹Therefore ^thear now this, ^ttthou afflicted,

And ^kudrunken, but not with wine:

²²Thus saith ^vthy Lord the Lord,

And thy God that ^wpleadeth the cause of his people,

Behold, I have taken out of thine hand ^kthe cup of ^mtrembling,

Even ^kthe dregs of the cup of my fury;

Thou shalt no more drink it again:

²³But ^xI will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;

^yWhich have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over:

And ^zthou hast laid thy body as the ground,

And as the street, to them that went over.

52^aAwake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;

Put on ^bthy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, ^cthe holy city:

For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and ^dthe unclean.

^2eShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:

^fLoose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

³For thus saith the Lord,

^gYe have sold yourselves ^hfor nought;

And ⁱye shall be redeemed without money.

⁴For thus saith the Lord God,

^kMy people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there;

And the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

⁵Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord,

That my people is taken away for nought?

They that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord;

And ^lmy name continually every day is ^mblasphemed.

⁶Therefore my people shall know my name:

Therefore they shall know ⁿin that day ^othat I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

^7pHow beautiful ^qupon the mountains are ^rthe feet of him ^sthat bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace;

^sThat bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation;

That saith unto Zion, ^tThy God reigneth!

⁸Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice;

With the voice together shall they sing:

For ^uthey shall see eye to eye,

When the Lord shall bring again Zion.

^9vBreak forth into joy, sing together, ^wye waste places of Jerusalem:

^xFor the Lord hath comforted his people, ^yhe hath redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰The Lord hath made bare ^zhis holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;

^aAnd ^ball the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

^11cDepart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing;

Go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, ^dthat bear the vessels of the Lord.

¹²For ^eye shall not go out ^fwith haste,

Nor go by flight:

^gFor the Lord will go before you;

And ^gthe God of Israel will ^†be your rereward.

¹³Behold, ^hmy servant shall ^||deal prudently,

ⁱHe shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

¹⁴As many ^kwere astonied at thee;

^lHis visage was so marred more than any man,

And his form more than the sons of men:

¹⁵So ^mshall he sprinkle many nations;

ⁿThe kings shall shut their mouths at him:

For ^othat which had not been told them shall they see;

And that which they had not heard shall they consider.

53^aWho hath believed our ^||†report?

And to whom is ^bthe arm of the Lord revealed?

²For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,

And as ^ca root out of ^da dry ground:

^eHe hath no form nor comeliness;

And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

^3fHe is despised and ^grejected of men;

^hA man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:

And ^||†iwe hid as it were our faces from him;

He was despised, and ^kwe esteemed him not.

⁴Surely ^lhe hath borne our griefs,

And carried our sorrows:

Yet we did esteem him ^mstricken,

ⁿSmitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵But ^ohe was ^||pwounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities:

^qThe chastisement of ^qqour peace was upon him;

And ^rswith his ^†stripes we are healed.

^6rtAll we like sheep have gone astray;

^tWe have turned every one to his own way;

And ^uthe Lord ^†hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

^7wHe was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

Yet ^xhe opened not his mouth:

^yzHe is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,

So he openeth not his mouth.

^8y||He was taken from prison and from judgment:

And ^bwho shall declare his generation?

For ^che was cut off out of ^dthe land of the living:

For the transgression of my people ^†was he stricken.

⁹And he made his grave with the wicked,

And ^ewith the rich in his ^†death;

^fBecause ^ghe had done no violence,

Neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath ^hput him to grief:

^||iWhen thou shalt make his soul ^kan offering for sin,

^lHe shall see his seed, ^mhe shall prolong his days,

And ⁿthe pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹He shall see of the travail of his soul, and ^oshall be satisfied:

^pBy his knowledge shall ^qmy righteous ^rservant ^sjustify ^tmany;

^uFor he shall bear their iniquities.

^12vTherefore will I divide him a portion with the great,

And ^whe shall divide the spoil with the strong;

Because he hath ^xpoured out his soul unto death:

^yAnd he was numbered with the transgressors;

And he bare the sin of many,

And ^zmade intercession for the transgressors.