Isaiah:51

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* Hearken to me , ye who follow after righteousness , ye who seek LORD . Look to the rock from where ye were hewn , and to the hold of the pit from where ye were dug . * Look to Abraham your father , and to Sarah who bore you . For when he was but one I called him , and I blessed him , and made him many . * For LORD has comforted Zion . He has comforted all her waste places , and has made her wilderness like Eden , and her desert like the garden of LORD . Joy and gladness shall be found therein , thanksgiving , and the voice of melody . * 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 . * My righteousness is near . My salvation has gone forth , and my arms shall judge the peoples . The isles shall wait for me , and on my arm they shall trust . * 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 grow old like a garment , and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner . But my salvation shal * Hearken to me , ye who know righteousness , the people in whose heart is my law . Fear ye not the reproach of men , nor be ye dismayed at 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 forever , and my salvation to all generations . * Awake , awake , put on strength , O arm of LORD . Awake , as in the days of old , the generations of ancient times . Is it not thou who cut Rahab in pieces , who pierced the monster ? * Is it not thou who dried up the sea , the waters of the great deep , who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over ? * And the ransomed of LORD 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 . * I , even I , am he who comforts you . Who are thou , that thou are afraid of man who shall die , and of the son of man who shall be made as grass , * and have forgotten LORD thy maker , who 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 * The captive exile shall speedily be loosed , and he shall not die in the pit , nor shall his bread fail . * For I am LORD thy God , who stirs up the sea so that the waves of it roar . LORD of hosts is his name . * And I have put my words in thy mouth , and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand , that I may plant the heavens , and lay the foundations of the earth , and say to Zion , Thou are my people . * Awake , awake , stand up , O Jerusalem , who have drunk at the hand of LORD the cup of his wrath . Thou have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering , and drained it . * There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth , nor is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons that she has brought up . * These two things have befallen thee (Who shall bemoan thee ?): Desolation and destruction , and the famine and the sword . How shall I comfort thee ? * Thy sons have fainted . They lie at the head of all the streets , as an antelope in a net . They are full of the wrath of LORD , the rebuke of thy God . * Therefore hear now this , thou afflicted , and drunken , but not with wine . * Thus says thy lord LORD , and thy God who pleads the cause of his people : Behold , I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering , even the bowl of the cup of my wrath . Thou shall no more drink it again . * And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict thee , who have said to thy soul , Bow down , that we may go over , and thou have laid thy back as the ground , and as the street , to those who go over .

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