51Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were dug.H8085H7291H6664H1245H3068H5027H6697H2672H4718H953H53652Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.H5027H85H1H8283H2342H7121H259H1288H72353For 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 will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.H3068H5162H6726H5162H2723H7760H4057H5731H6160H1588H3068H8342H8057H4672H8426H6963H21724Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for instruction will come from Me, and My justice for a light to the nations. I will bring it about quickly.H7181H5971H238H3816H8451H3318H4941H7280H216H59715My righteousness is near, My salvation appears, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The coastlands will put their hope in Me, and they will look to My strength.H6664H7138H3468H3318H2220H8199H5971H339H6960H2220H31766Look up to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die in like manner. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never be shattered.H5375H5869H8064H5027H776H8064H4414H6227H776H1086H899H3427H4191H3644H3654H3444H5769H6666H28657Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My instruction: do not fear disgrace by men, and do not be shattered by their taunts.H8085H3045H6664H5971H3820H8451H3372H2781H582H2865H14218For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, and My salvation for all generations.H6211H398H899H5580H398H6785H6666H5769H3444H1755H17559Wake up, wake up! Put on the strength of the LORD's power. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of long ago. Wasn't it You who hacked Rahab to pieces, who pierced the sea monster?H5782H5782H3847H5797H2220H3068H5782H6924H3117H1755H5769H2672H7294H2490H857710Wasn't it You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the sea-bed into a road for the redeemed to pass over?H2717H3220H4325H7227H8415H7760H4615H3220H1870H1350H567411And the ransomed of the LORD will return and come to Zion with singing, crowned with unending joy. Joy and gladness will overtake [them], and sorrow and sighing will flee.H6299H3068H7725H935H7440H6726H5769H8057H7218H5381H8342H8057H3015H585H512712I— I am the One who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear man who dies, or a son of man who is given up like grass?H5162H3372H582H4191H1121H120H5414H268213But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You are in constant dread all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who has set himself to destroy. But where is the fury of the oppressor?H7911H3068H6213H5186H8064H3245H776H6342H8548H3117H6440H2534H6693H834H3559H7843H2534H669314The prisoner is soon to be set free; he will not die [and go] to the Pit, and his food will not be lacking.H6808H4116H6605H4191H7845H3899H263715For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— His name is Yahweh of Hosts.H3068H430H7280H3220H1530H1993H3068H6635H803416I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you in the shadow of My hand, in order to plant the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, "You are My people."H7760H1697H6310H3680H6738H3027H5193H8064H3245H776H559H6726H597117Wake yourself, wake yourself up! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk the cup of His fury from the hand of the LORD; you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs— the cup that [causes people] to stagger.H5782H5782H6965H3389H8354H3027H3068H3563H2534H8354H6907H3563H8653H468018There is no one to guide her among all the children she has raised; there is no one to take hold of her hand among all the offspring she has brought up.H5095H1121H3205H2388H3027H1121H143119These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?H8147H7122H5110H7701H7667H7458H2719H516220Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD's fury, the rebuke of your God.H1121H5968H7901H7218H2351H8377H4364H4392H2534H3068H1606H43021So listen to this, afflicted and drunken one— but not with wine.H8085H6041H7937H319622This is what your Lord says— Yahweh, even your God, who defends His people— "Look, I have removed the cup of staggering from your hand; that goblet, the cup of My fury. You will never drink it again.H559H113H3068H430H7378H5971H3947H3027H3563H8653H6907H3563H2534H3254H835423I will put it into the hands of your tormenters, who said to you: Lie down, so we can walk over you. You made your back like the ground, and like a street for those who walk on it.H7760H3027H3013H559H5315H7812H5674H7760H1460H776H2351H5674