Isaiah:51:1-16

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* Hearken unto me , ye that follow after righteousness , ye that seek Jehovah : look unto the rock [whence ] ye were hewn , and to the hole of the pit [whence ] ye were digged . * Look unto Abraham your father , and unto Sarah that bore you ; for I called him when he was alone , and blessed him , and multiplied him . * For Jehovah shall comfort Zion , he shall comfort all her waste places ; and he will make her wilderness like Eden , and her desert like the garden of Jehovah : gladness and joy shall be found therein , thanksgiving , and the voice of song . * Listen unto me , my people ; and give ear unto me , my nation : for a law shall proceed from me , and I will establish my judgment for a light of the peoples . * My righteousness is near , my salvation is gone forth , and mine arms shall judge the peoples : the isles shall wait for me , and in mine arm shall they trust . * Lift up your eyes to the heavens , and look on the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke , and the earth shall grow 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 . * Hearken unto me , ye that know righteousness , the people in whose heart is my law ; fear not the reproach of men , and be not afraid of their revilings . * 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 from generation to generation . * Awake , awake , put on strength , O arm of Jehovah ; awake , as in the days of old , [as in ] the generations of passed ages . Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces , [and ] pierced the monster ? * Is it not thou 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 ? * So the ransomed of Jehovah shall return , and come to Zion with singing ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads : they shall obtain gladness and joy ; sorrow and sighing shall flee away . * I , [even ] I , am he that comforteth you : who art thou , that thou fearest a man that shall die , and the son of man that shall become as grass ; * and forgettest Jehovah thy Maker , who hath stretched out the heavens , and laid the foundations of the earth ; and thou art afraid continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor , when he prepareth to destroy ? And where is the fury of the oppressor ? * He that is bowed down shall speedily be loosed , and he shall not die in the pit , nor shall his bread fail . * And I am Jehovah thy God , who raiseth the sea , so that its waves roar : Jehovah of hosts is his name . * And I have put my words in thy mouth , and covered thee with the shadow of my hand , to plant the heavens , and to lay the foundations of the earth , and to say unto Zion , Thou art my people .

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