51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look to the rock {whence} ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit {whence} ye are digged. 
51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look to the rock {from which} ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit {from which} ye are dug. 

51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah {that} bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 
51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah {that} bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 

51:3 For the LORD will 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. 
51:3 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 in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 

51:4 Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to 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. 
51:4 Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to 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. 

51:5 My righteousness {is} near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust. 
51:5 My righteousness {is} near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust. 

51:6 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 become old like a garment, and its inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 
51:6 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 become old like a garment, and its inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 

51:7 Hearken to 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. 
51:7 Hearken to 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. 

51:8 For the moth shall eat them 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. 
51:8 For the moth shall eat them 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. 

51:9 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. {Art} thou not that which hath cut Rahab, {and} wounded the dragon? 
51:9 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. {Art} thou not that which hath cut Rahab, {and} wounded the dragon? 

51:10 {Art} thou not that 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? 
51:10 {Art} thou not that 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? 

51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy {shall be} upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 
51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy {shall be} upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 

51:12 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 {who} shall be made {as} grass; 
51:12 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 {who} shall be made {as} grass; 

51:13 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? 
51:13 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? 

51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 
51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 

51:15 But I {am} the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts {is} his name. 
51:15 But I {am} the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts {is} his name. 

51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shade of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, Thou {art} my people. 
51:16 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 {art} my people. 

51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, {and} wrung {them} out. 
51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, {and} wrung {them} out. 

51:18 {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. 
51:18 {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. 

51:19 These two {things} have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? 
51:19 These two {things} have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? 

51:20 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. 
51:20 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. 

51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 
51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine: 

51:22 Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God {that} pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, {even} the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 
51:22 Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God {that} pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, {even} the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 

51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Prostrate thyself, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. 
51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who 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.