Verse 1
Isaiah 51:1
World English Bible, British Edition
1
“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
you who seek the LORD.
Look to the rock you were cut from,
and to the quarry you were dug from.
Original Language Text
hebrew
שִׁמְע֥וּ אֵלַ֛/י רֹ֥דְפֵי צֶ֖דֶק מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַבִּ֨יטוּ֙ אֶל צ֣וּר חֻצַּבְתֶּ֔ם וְ/אֶל מַקֶּ֥בֶת בּ֖וֹר נֻקַּרְתֶּֽם
English Translation
Hear, O you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD; look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
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Chapter 51 Context
1
“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
you who seek the LORD.
Look to the rock you were...
2
Look to Abraham your father,
and to Sarah who bore you;
for when he was but one I called him,
I bles...
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3
For the LORD has comforted Zion.
He has comforted all her waste places,
and has made her wilderness...
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4
“Listen to me, my people;
and hear me, my nation,
for a law will go out from me,
and I will establis...
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5
My righteousness is near.
My salvation has gone out,
and my arms will judge the peoples.
The islands...
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6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish away li...
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7
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is my law.
Don’t fear the repro...
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8
For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool;
but my righteous...
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9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD!
Awake, as in the days of old,
the generations of anc...
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10
Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a wa...
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11
Those ransomed by the LORD will return,
and come with singing to Zion.
Everlasting joy shall be on t...
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12
“I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
and of th...
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13
Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens,
and laid the foundations of t...
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14
The captive exile will speedily be freed.
He will not die and go down into the pit.
His bread won’t...
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15
For I am the LORD your God (Elohim), who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar.
the LORD of Armies...
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16
I have put my words in your mouth
and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
that I may plant th...
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17
Awake, awake!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the LORD’s hand the cup of his wrath.
You...
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18
There is no one to guide her amongst all the sons to whom she
has given birth;
and there is no one w...
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19
These two things have happened to you—
who will grieve with you?—
desolation and destruction,
and fa...
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20
Your sons have fainted.
They lie at the head of all the streets,
like an antelope in a net.
They are...
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21
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,
and drunken, but not with wine:
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22
Your Lord GOD,
your God (Elohim) who pleads the cause of his people, says,
“Behold, I have taken out...
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23
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we...
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