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Comfort for Zion: Remember Abraham; God's Salvation

Isaiah 51:1-16

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Chapter 51
1 Hear me, you pursuers of righteousness, you seekers of the LORD: look to the Rock you quarried and to the excavation of the pit you were dug from. 2 Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who travailed with you, for I called him as one, and I blessed him and I multiplied him. 3 For the LORD has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her ruins, and he will set her wilderness like Eden and her Arabah like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. 4 Listen to me, my people, and my nation; give ear to me, for Torah from me will go out, and my justice I will make shine as light to peoples. 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation goes forth, and my seed—the peoples—will look to me for judgment. The isles will wait, and on the arm of my seed they will hope. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the land below, for the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the land will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die in like manner, and my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be shattered. 7 Hear me, you who know righteousness, the people who have my Torah in their heart—do not fear the reproach of man nor be dismayed at their blasphemies. 8 For the moth will eat them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, and my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to generation after generation. 9 Awake, awake! Put on might, O arm of the LORD! Awake as in days of old, generations of long ago! Is it not you who hewed Rahab, who pierced the sea monster? 10 Is it not you, the one who devastated the Sea, the waters of the Great Deep, the one who made the depths of the Sea a way for the redeemed to cross? 11 And the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with ringing cries and eternal joy upon their heads. They shall attain exultation and joy; sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 12 I, I am he who comforts you; who are you to fear man who dies, and a son of Adam who is grass that is given? 13 and you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and founded the land, and you fear continually all the day because of the anger of the oppressor, as when he prepares to destroy. And where is the anger of the oppressor? 14 The captive hastens to be released, and he will not die in the pit, nor will his bread be lacking. 15 And I am the LORD your God, who quiets the sea while its waves roar; the LORD of hosts is his name. 16 And I will put my words in your mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I will cover you, to plant the heavens and to found the land and to say to Zion, "You are my people."