Isa 51
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Hearken to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek YHWH: look to the
rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
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Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I
called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
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For YHWH has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of YHWH; joy and gladness shall
be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
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Attend to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth
from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.
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My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the
peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens
shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they
that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and
my righteousness shall not be abolished.
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Hearken to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear
you not the reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their revilings.
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For the 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 to all generations.
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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YHWH; awake, as in the days of old, the generations
of ancient times. Is it not you that did cut Rahab in pieces, that did pierce the
monster?
10
Is it not you that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths
of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
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And the ransomed of YHWH shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting
joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and
sighing shall flee away.
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I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man that shall
die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;
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and have forgotten YHWH your Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the
foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of
the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
14
The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die [and go down] into
the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
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For I am YHWH your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: YHWH
of hosts is his name.
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And I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion,
You are my people.
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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of YHWH the cup of
his anger; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
18
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither
is there any that takes her by the hand among all the sons that she has brought up.
19
These two things are befallen you, who shall bemoan you? desolation and destruction,
and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
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Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in
a net; they are full of the anger of YHWH, the rebuke of your God.
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Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:
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Thus says your Lord YHWH, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold,
I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my
anger; you shall no more drink it again:
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and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you, that have said to your soul,
Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the
street, to them that go over.