Isaias

LI. 1 Hearken to me, ye that pursue that is righteous, and seek the Lord: look unto the solid rock which ye did hew, and unto the hole of the pit which ye digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for he was one, and I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

3 And thee will I now comfort, Zion, and I did comfort all her waste places; <and I will make her waste places> as and the western regions like a garden of the Lord; joy and exultation shall they find therein, confession and the voice of praise.

4 Hearken to me, hearken, my people; and ye kings, give ear unto me ; for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment for a light of the nations.

5 My righteousness draweth quickly near; and my salvation also shall go forth, and in my arm shall the nations hope; the isles shall wait for me, and in my arm shall they hope.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heaven, and look upon the earth beneath 3 for the heaven is massed as smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a cloke, and they that dwell on the earth shall die like as those (things); but my salvation, shall be for everlasting, and my righteousness shall not fail.

7 Hearken unto me, ye that know judgment, my people who have the law in your hearts; fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their despising.

8 For as a cloke shall it be eaten up by time, and as wool shall it be eaten up by a moth; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for generations of generations.

9 Awake, awake, Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the beginning of a day, as a generation of eternity. Art not thou

10 She that maketh desolate the sea, the water, the abundance of the deep? that made the depths of the sea a passage way for the delivered,

11 and them that were redeemed? For by the Lord's doing shall they return, and come to Zion with joy, and everlasting exultation; for upon their head is exultation and praise, and joy shall take hold of them; grief is fallen away, and pain, and sighings.

12 I am, I am he that comforteth thee; learn of- whom thou wast ware, and didst fear before a mortal man, and before a son of man; who were dried up like grass.

13 And thou forgottest God that made thee, that made the heaven, and laid the foundations of the earth; and didst fear continually all the days the face of the wrath of him that was afflicting thee, for (it was) as (though) he were minded to remove thee; and now, where is the wrath of him that did afflict thee?

14 For in thy being saved he shall not stand (still), nor linger.

15 For I am thy God, which disturbeth the sea, and maketh her waves to sound; the Lord of Hosts is my name.

16 I will put my words in thy mouth, and under my right hand will I shelter thee; wherewith I set up the heaven, and laid the foundation of the earth; and he shall say to Zion, Thou art my people.

17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that hast drunk the cup of wrath from the hand of the Lord; for thou didst drink, and didst empty out the cup of falling, the goblet of (his)

18 And there was none that comforted thee from among all thy children that thou broughtest forth; and there was none. that took hold of thy hand from among all thy sons whom thou didst raise up.

19 These two things are against thee; who shall grieve with thee? ruin and destruction, famine and sword: who shall comfort thee?

20 Thy sons are they that are helpless, that lie down at the head of every passage way like sodden herbs; that are full of the wrath of the Lord, that are undone through the Lord God.