Isaiah:51

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* Hearken to me , ye that pursue righteousness . Ye that seek Jehovah ! Look to the rock whence ye were hewn , To the pit –quarry whence ye were digged ! * Look to Abraham your father , And to Sarah that bore you ! For I called him when only one , And blessed him , and multiplied him . * Thus will Jehovah have pity upon Zion ; He will have pity upon all her desolations . He will make her wilderness like Eden , Her desert like the garden of Jehovah . Joy and gladness shall be found therein ; Thanksgiving , and the voice of melody . * Hearken to me , O my people ! And give ear to me , O my nation ! For a law shall proceed from me , And I will establish my statutes for the light of the nations . * My help is near ; my salvation goeth forth ; My arm shall judge the nations ; Distant lands shall wait for me , And in my arm shall they trust . * Lift up your eyes to the heavens , And look down upon the earth beneath ! For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke , And the earth shall decay like a garment , And its inhabitants shall perish like flies . But my salvation shall endure forever , And my goodness shall not decay . * Hearken to me , ye that know righteousness , The people in whose heart is my law ! Fear ye not the reproach of men , Nor be disheartened by their revilings ! * For the moth shall consume them like a garment , And the worm shall eat them like wool . But my goodness shall endure forever , And my salvation from generation to generation . * Awake ! awake ! clothe thyself with strength , O arm of Jehovah ! Awake , as in the ancient days , in the generations of old ! * Art thou not the same that smote Rahab , And wounded the dragon ? Art thou not the same that dried up the sea , The waters of the great deep ,––That made the depths of the sea a path for the redeemed to pass through ? * Thus shall the ransomed of Jehovah return ; They shall come to Zion with singing ; 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 that hath pity upon you ; Who art thou , that thou art afraid of man , that shall die , Of the son of man , that shall perish like grass , * And forgettest Jehovah thy maker , That stretched out the heavens , And founded the earth , And fearest continually every day , On account of the fury of the oppressor , As if he were taking aim to destroy thee ? Where now is the fury of the oppressor ? * Soon shall the enchained be loosed ; He shall not die in the pit , Nor shall his bread fail . * For I am Jehovah thy God , That rebuketh the sea when his waves roar ; Jehovah of hosts is his name . * I have put my words into thy mouth , And have covered thee with the shadow of my hand , To establish the heavens , and to found the earth . And to say to Zion , "Thou art my people !" * Awake , awake , stand up , O Jerusalem ! Thou that hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury , Thou that hast drunk to the dregs the cup of giddiness ! * There is not one to lead her , of all the sons which she hath brought forth , Nor is there one to take her by the hand , of all the sons which she hath nurtured . * These two things have come upon thee , And who bemoaneth thee ? Desolation and destruction , and famine and the sword ; How shall I comfort thee ? * Thy sons have fainted ; they lie at the head of all the streets , Like a deer in the net ; They are full of the wrath of Jehovah , Of the rebuke of thy God . * Therefore , hear this , thou afflicted , Thou drunken , and not with wine ! * Thus saith thy Lord , Jehovah , And thy God , that defendeth the cause of his people . Behold , I will take from thy hand the cup of giddiness , The cup of my wrath ; Thou shalt drink no more of it . * And I will put it into the hand of them that have afflicted thee ; That have said to thee , "Bow down , that we may pass over !" And thou madest thy body as the ground , And as the street , to them that passed over .

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