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Chapter 51
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Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness,
ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are
hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. |
2
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Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that
bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and
increased him. |
3
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For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all
her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like
Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy
and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and
the voice of melody. |
4
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Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O
my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will
make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. |
5
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My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth,
and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall
wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. |
6
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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 wax 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. |
7
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Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people
in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of
men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. |
8
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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. |
9
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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake,
as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art
thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? |
10
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Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters
of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea
a way for the ransomed to pass over? |
11
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Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and
come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall
be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy;
and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. |
12
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I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou,
that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die,
and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; |
13
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And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched
forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth;
and hast feared continually every day because of the
fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?
and where is the fury of the oppressor? |
14
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The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread
should fail. |
15
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But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose
waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. |
16
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And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered
thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the
heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say
unto Zion, Thou art my people. |
17
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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk
at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast
drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung
them out. |
18
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There is none to guide her among all the sons whom
she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh
her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought
up. |
19
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These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry
for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine,
and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? |
20
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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all
the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of
the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. |
21
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Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken,
but not with wine: |
22
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Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth
the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of
thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the
cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: |
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But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict
thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we
may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground,
and as the street, to them that went over. |
