1Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD; look unto the rock from which {whence} ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2Look unto Abraham, your father, and unto Sarah, who bore 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 in it {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 justice {judgment} to rest for a light of the peoples. 5My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge the peoples; the coasts {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 grow {wax} old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner; but My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be abolished. 7Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is 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 forever, 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. Was it not {Art} Thou {not it} Who hath cut Rahab, and wounded the sea-monster {dragon}? 10Was it not Thou Who hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; Who 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 shall be upon their head; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 12I, even I, am He Who comforteth you. Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made like {as} grass, 13And forgettest the LORD thy Maker, Who 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 is 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 am the LORD, thy God, Who divided the sea, whose waves roared; The LORD of hosts is 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 art 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, and wrung them out. 18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. 19These two things 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, like {as} an antelope {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 Who pleadeth the cause of His people: Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even 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 who afflict thee, who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy body like {as} the ground, and like {as} the street, to those who went over.