Verse 16

Isaiah 51:16

Literal Standard Version

16 And I put My words in your mouth, || And have covered you with the shadow of My hand, || To plant the heavens, and to found earth, || And to say to Zion, You are My people.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אָשִׂ֤ים דְּבָרַ/י֙ בְּ/פִ֔י/ךָ וּ/בְ/צֵ֥ל יָדִ֖/י כִּסִּיתִ֑י/ךָ לִ/נְטֹ֤עַ שָׁמַ֨יִם֙ וְ/לִ/יסֹ֣ד אָ֔רֶץ וְ/לֵ/אמֹ֥ר לְ/צִיּ֖וֹן עַמִּ/י אָֽתָּה
English Translation
I will put my words in your mouth and I have covered you with the shadow of my hand to plant the heavens and to lay the foundation of the earth and to say to Zion, "You are my people."
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 51 Context
1 “Listen to Me, you pursuing righteousness, || Seeking YHWH, || Look attentively to the rock—you have... Focus ↗
2 Look attentively to your father Abraham, || And to Sarah—she brings you forth, || For—one—I have cal... Focus ↗
3 For YHWH has comforted Zion, || He has comforted all her ruins, || And He sets her wilderness as Ede... Focus ↗
4 “Attend to Me, O My people, || And, O My nation, give ear to Me. For a law goes out from Me, || And... Focus ↗
5 My righteousness is near, || My salvation has gone out, || And My arms judge peoples, || Islands wai... Focus ↗
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, || And look attentively to the earth beneath, || For the heavens h... Focus ↗
7 Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, || A people in whose heart is My law, || Do not fear the r... Focus ↗
8 For a moth eats them as a garment, || And a worm eats them as wool, || And My righteousness is for a... Focus ↗
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YHWH, || Awake, as in days of old, generations of the ages,... Focus ↗
10 Are You not it that is drying up a sea, || Waters of a great deep? That has made deep places of a se... Focus ↗
11 And the ransomed of YHWH return, || And they have come to Zion with singing, || And continuous joy i... Focus ↗
12 “I am He who comforts you, || Who are you—and you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of man—... Focus ↗
13 And you forget YHWH your Maker, || Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, || And you... Focus ↗
14 A wanderer has hurried to be loosed, || And he does not die in the pit, || And his bread is not lack... Focus ↗
15 And I am your God (Elohim) YHWH, || Quieting the sea when its billows roar, || YHWH of Hosts is His... Focus ↗
16 And I put My words in your mouth, || And have covered you with the shadow of My hand, || To plant th...
17 Stir yourself, stir yourself, rise, Jerusalem, || You who have drunk from the hand of YHWH || The cu... Focus ↗
18 There is not a leader to her || Out of all the sons she has borne, || And there is none laying hold... Focus ↗
19 These two are meeting you, || Who is moved for you? Spoiling and destruction, famine and sword! By w... Focus ↗
20 Your sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, || At the head of all out places, as an antelop... Focus ↗
21 Therefore, please hear this, || O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine, Focus ↗
22 Thus said your Lord YHWH, and your God (Elohim), || He pleads for His people: “Behold, I have taken... Focus ↗
23 And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting you, || Who have said to your soul, || Bow down,... Focus ↗