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# Chapter 51
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1. "Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness,
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You who seek the Lord:
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Look to the rock from which you were hewn,
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And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
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2. Look to Abraham your father,
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And to Sarah who bore you;
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For I called him alone,
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And blessed him and increased him."
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3. For the Lord will comfort Zion,
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He will comfort all her waste places;
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He will make her wilderness like Eden,
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And her desert like the garden of the Lord;
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Joy and gladness will be found in it,
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Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
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4. "Listen to Me, My people;
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And give ear to Me, O My nation:
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For law will proceed from Me,
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And I will make My justice rest
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As a light of the peoples.
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5. My righteousness is near,
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My salvation has gone forth,
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And My arms will judge the peoples;
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The coastlands will wait upon Me,
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And on My arm they will trust.
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6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
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And look on the earth beneath.
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For the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
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The earth will grow old like a garment,
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And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
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But My salvation will be forever,
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And My righteousness will not be abolished.
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7. "Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
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You people in whose heart is My law:
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Do not fear the reproach of men,
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Nor be afraid of their insults.
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8. For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
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And the worm will eat them like wool;
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But My righteousness will be forever,
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And My salvation from generation to generation."
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9. Awake, awake, put on strength,
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O arm of the Lord!
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Awake as in the ancient days,
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In the generations of old.
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Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart,
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And wounded the serpent?
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10. Are You not the One who dried up the sea,
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The waters of the great deep;
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That made the depths of the sea a road
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For the redeemed to cross over?
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11. So the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
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And come to Zion with singing,
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With everlasting joy on their heads.
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They shall obtain joy and gladness;
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Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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12. "I, even I, am He who comforts you.
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Who are you that you should be afraid
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Of a man who will die,
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And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?
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13. And you forget the Lord your Maker,
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Who stretched out the heavens
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And laid the foundations of the earth;
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You have feared continually every day
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Because of the fury of the oppressor,
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When he has prepared to destroy.
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And where is the fury of the oppressor?
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14. The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed,
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That he should not die in the pit,
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And that his bread should not fail.
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15. But I am the Lord your God,
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Who divided the sea whose waves roared--
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The Lord of hosts is His name.
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16. And I have put My words in your mouth;
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I have covered you with the shadow of My hand,
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That I may plant the heavens,
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Lay the foundations of the earth,
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And say to Zion, 'You are My people.' "God's Fury Removed
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17. Awake, awake!
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Stand up, O Jerusalem,
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You who have drunk at the hand of the Lord
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The cup of His fury;
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You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling,
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And drained it out.
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18. There is no one to guide her
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Among all the sons she has brought forth;
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Nor is there any who takes her by the hand
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Among all the sons she has brought up.
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19. These two things have come to you;
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Who will be sorry for you?--
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Desolation and destruction, famine and sword--
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By whom will I comfort you?
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20. Your sons have fainted,
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They lie at the head of all the streets,
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Like an antelope in a net;
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They are full of the fury of the Lord,
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The rebuke of your God.
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21. Therefore please hear this, you afflicted,
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And drunk but not with wine.
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22. Thus says your Lord,
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The Lord and your God,
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Who pleads the cause of His people:
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"See, I have taken out of your hand
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The cup of trembling,
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The dregs of the cup of My fury;
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You shall no longer drink it.
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23. But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
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Who have said to you,
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'Lie down, that we may walk over you.'
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And you have laid your body like the ground,
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And as the street, for those who walk over."
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