Isaiah 51

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.