Isaiah 51
1Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock <add>whence</add> ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit <add>whence</add> ye are digged.2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah <add>that</add> bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.3For 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 therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto 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.5My righteousness <add>is</add> near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
7Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart <add>is</add> my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.8For the moth shall eat them up 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.
9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. <add>Art</add> thou not it that hath cut Rahab, <add>and</add> wounded the dragon?10<add>Art</add> thou not it 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?11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy <add>shall be</add> upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; <add>and</add> sorrow and mourning shall flee away.12I, <add>even</add> I, <add>am</add> he that comforteth you: who <add>art</add> thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man <add>that</add> shall die, and of the son of man <add>which</add> shall be made as grass;13And 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 <add>is</add> the fury of the oppressor?14The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.15But I <add>am</add> the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts <add>is</add> his name.16And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou <add>art</add> my people.
17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, <add>and</add> wrung <add>them</add> out.18<add>There is</add> none to guide her among all the sons <add>whom</add> she hath brought forth; neither <add>is there any</add> that taketh her by the hand of all the sons <add>that</add> she hath brought up.19These two <add>things</add> are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?20Thy 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.
21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:22Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God <add>that</add> pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, <add>even</add> the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which 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.
4Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto 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.5My righteousness <add>is</add> near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
7Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart <add>is</add> my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.8For the moth shall eat them up 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.
9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. <add>Art</add> thou not it that hath cut Rahab, <add>and</add> wounded the dragon?10<add>Art</add> thou not it 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?11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy <add>shall be</add> upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; <add>and</add> sorrow and mourning shall flee away.12I, <add>even</add> I, <add>am</add> he that comforteth you: who <add>art</add> thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man <add>that</add> shall die, and of the son of man <add>which</add> shall be made as grass;13And 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 <add>is</add> the fury of the oppressor?14The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.15But I <add>am</add> the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts <add>is</add> his name.16And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou <add>art</add> my people.
17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, <add>and</add> wrung <add>them</add> out.18<add>There is</add> none to guide her among all the sons <add>whom</add> she hath brought forth; neither <add>is there any</add> that taketh her by the hand of all the sons <add>that</add> she hath brought up.19These two <add>things</add> are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?20Thy 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.
21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:22Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God <add>that</add> pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, <add>even</add> the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which 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.