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1 Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD [Yahweh]: look to the rock [where] you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [where] you are digged.
2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the LORD [Yahweh] 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 [Yahweh]; joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 Listen to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law will proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms will judge the people; the isles will wait upon me, and on my arm will they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein will die in like manner: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
7 Listen to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings.
8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD [Yahweh]; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Are] you not it that has cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
10 [Are] you not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that has made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD [Yahweh] will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy [will be] upon their head: they will obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning will flee away.
12 I, [even] I, [am] he that comforts you: who [are] you, that you should be afraid of a man [that] will die, and of the son of man [which] will be made [as] grass;
13 And forget the LORD [Yahweh] your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I [am] the LORD [Yahweh] your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD [Yahweh] of hosts [is] his name.
16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, You [are] my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand of the LORD [Yahweh] the cup of his fury; you have drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.
18 [There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she has brought forth; neither [is there any] that takes her by the hand of all the sons [that] she has brought up.
19 These two [things] are come to you; who will be sorry for you? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom will I comfort you?
20 Your 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 [Yahweh], the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus says your Lord the LORD [Yahweh], and your God [that] pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; you will no more drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid your body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.