Isaiah 51

1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.Cross-references: Gen 17:15 · Ps 24:6 · Ps 94:15 · Ps 105:3 · Prov 15:9 · Prov 21:21 · +18 more

2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 13:14 · Gen 15:1 · Gen 15:4 · Gen 18:11 · Gen 22:17 · +10 more

3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Gen 13:10 · Ps 85:8 · Ps 102:13 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 25:9 · +21 more

4“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.Cross-references: Ex 19:6 · Ex 33:13 · Ps 33:12 · Ps 50:7 · Ps 78:1 · Ps 106:5 · +14 more

5My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.Cross-references: Deut 30:14 · 1Sam 2:10 · Ps 50:4 · Ps 67:4 · Ps 85:9 · Ps 96:13 · +25 more

6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Ps 8:3 · Ps 102:25 · Ps 103:17 · Isa 13:13 · Isa 34:4 · +17 more

7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.Cross-references: Ps 37:31 · Ps 40:8 · Isa 51:1 · Jer 1:17 · Jer 31:33 · Ezek 2:6 · +12 more

8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”Cross-references: Job 4:19 · Job 13:28 · Isa 45:17 · Isa 46:13 · Isa 50:9 · Isa 51:6 · +3 more

9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?Cross-references: Deut 4:34 · Judg 6:13 · Neh 9:7 · Job 26:12 · Ps 7:6 · Ps 21:13 · +23 more

10Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?Cross-references: Ex 14:21 · Ex 15:13 · Ps 74:13 · Isa 42:15 · Isa 43:16 · Isa 50:2 · +1 more

11Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.Cross-references: Isa 25:8 · Isa 35:10 · Isa 44:23 · Isa 48:20 · Isa 49:13 · Isa 60:19 · +17 more

12“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?Cross-references: Ps 90:5 · Ps 92:7 · Ps 103:15 · Ps 118:6 · Ps 146:4 · Prov 29:26 · +17 more

13Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?Cross-references: Ex 14:10 · Ex 15:9 · Deut 32:18 · Esth 5:14 · Esth 7:10 · Job 9:8 · +35 more

14The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.Cross-references: Ezra 1:5 · Isa 48:20 · Isa 49:10 · Isa 52:2 · Jer 37:16 · Jer 38:6 · +3 more

15For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.Cross-references: Neh 9:11 · Job 26:12 · Ps 74:13 · Ps 114:3 · Ps 136:13 · Isa 47:4 · +6 more

16I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”Cross-references: Ex 33:22 · Deut 18:18 · Deut 33:27 · Ps 75:3 · Ps 92:13 · Isa 45:18 · +20 more

17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.Cross-references: Deut 28:28 · Deut 28:34 · Judg 5:12 · Job 21:20 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 60:3 · +14 more

18There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.Cross-references: Job 8:20 · Ps 88:18 · Ps 142:4 · Isa 3:4 · Isa 41:13 · Isa 45:1 · +8 more

19These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?Cross-references: Job 2:11 · Job 42:11 · Ps 69:20 · Eccl 4:1 · Isa 14:30 · Isa 22:4 · +11 more

20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.Cross-references: Deut 14:5 · Ps 88:15 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 8:21 · Isa 9:19 · Isa 29:9 · +17 more

21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:Cross-references: Isa 29:9 · Isa 51:17 · Isa 54:11

22Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:39 · Ps 35:1 · Prov 22:23 · Isa 49:25 · Isa 51:17 · Isa 54:7 · +6 more

23I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”Cross-references: Josh 10:24 · Ps 65:11 · Prov 11:8 · Prov 21:18 · Isa 49:25 · Jer 25:15 · +5 more