1Listen to me, you^2f that follow after righteousness, you^2f that seek the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): look unto the rock [from what place] you^2f are cut, and to the hole of the pit [from what place] you^2f are excavated.

2Look unto Avraham [Exalted Father] your father, and unto Serach [The Prince Breathed] [that] bore you: for I called him alone, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) him, and increased him.

3For the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall comfort Tziyon [parched place]: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like ‘Eden [pleasure], and her desert like the Garden of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

4Listen unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a Torah shall proceed from me, and I will calm them with my justice for a light of the people.

5My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.

6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow (become; advance) old like a garment, and they that dwell in it shall die in like manner: but my Salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

7Listen unto me, you^2f that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] my law; fear you^2f not the reproach (disgrace; shame) of men, neither be you^2f afraid of their revilings.

8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Are] youⁱ not it that has cut Rachav [Wide], [and] wounded the dragon?

10[Are] youⁱ not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that has made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall return, and come with singing unto Tziyon [parched place]; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

12I, [even] I, [am] he that comforts you: who [are] youⁱ, that youⁱ should be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the Son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;

13And forgets the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) yourⁱ maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?

14The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 15But I [am] the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) yourⁱ God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] [is] his name. 16And I have put my words in yourⁱ mouth, and I have covered youⁱ in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Tziyon [parched place], youⁱ [are] my people.

17Awake, awake, stand up, O Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], which have drunk at the hand of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) the cup of his fury; youⁱ have drunken the dregs (grounds at the bottom of a cup) of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.

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 of all the sons [that] she has brought up.

19These two [things] are come unto youⁱ; who shall be sorry for youⁱ? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort youⁱ?

20Your1s sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain) of youⁱ God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

21Therefore hear now this, youⁱ afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

22Thus says yourⁱ Lord (Adon) [Lord of the earth] the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and yourⁱ God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [that] pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of yourⁱ hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs (grounds at the bottom of a cup) of the cup of my fury; youⁱ shall no more drink it again:

23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict youⁱ; which have said to yourⁱ soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and youⁱ have laid yourⁱ body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.