Isaiah 51:1-13 ▼

1 “Listen to Me, O pursuers of righteousness, seeking YHWH! Look to the rock from which you? were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you? were dug.

2 Look to Abraham your? father, and to Sarah who bore you?! For I called him alone, and I blessed him and multiplied him.

3 For YHWH has comforted Zion; He has comforted all her ruins, and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert plain like the garden of YHWH. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.

4 Pay attention to Me, My people; and My nation, give ear to Me! For from Me a law goes forth, and My justice I will make in an instant as a light to the nations.

5 My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth; and My arms will judge the nations; the islands will wait for me, and on My arm they will wait in hope.

6 Lift up your? eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath! For the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment, and its dwellers will die like gnats; and My salvation will be forever, and My righteousness will not be broken.

7 Listen to Me, O knowers of righteousness, people with My law in their heart: Do not fear the scorn of men, and by their insults do not be broken!

8 For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will devour them like wool; and My righteousness will be forever, and My salvation to all generations.”

9 Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of YHWH! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of old! Was it not You cutting apart Rahab and piercing through the dragon?

10 Was it not You drying up the Sea, the waters of the great deep, who has made the depths of the sea as a pathway for the redeemed to pass over?

11 And the ransomed of YHWH will return, and they will come to Zion, with singing and with gladness everlasting on their heads; gladness and joy will overtake them; sorrow and sighing will flee.

12 “I—I am He, the One comforting you?. Who are you that you should be afraid of a man—he will die—and of son of man; he will be set as grass.

13 And you forget YHWH your Maker, the One stretching out the heavens, and laying the foundations of the earth; and you are in dread continually, all the day, from the face of the rage of the one oppressing, who is prepared to destroy. And where is the rage of the oppressor?