Yeshayahu 51 ישעיהו נ״א

Hearken to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the Lord: look to the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug out.

Look to Avraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for he was but one when I called him, and I blessed him, and increased him.

For the Lord shall comfort Żiyyon: 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, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for Tora shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment suddenly for a light of the peoples.

My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.

Lift 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 old like a garment, and they that dwell in it shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be overthrown.

Hearken to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my Tora; fear not the taunts of men, neither be dismayed by their revilings.

For 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 for all generations.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that has cut Raĥav in pieces, and wounded the crocodile?

Art thou not it which dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing to Żiyyon; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

I, even I, am he that comforts you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

and hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, that 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 he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

The crouching one hastens that he may be loosed, and he shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail.

And I am the Lord thy God, who stirs up the sea, that its waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.

And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Żiyyon, Thou art my people.

Awake, awake, stand up, O Yerushalayim, who hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunk to the dregs, the deep bowl of staggering.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; nor is there any that takes her by the hand among all the sons that she has brought up.

These two things have befallen thee; who shall console thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a bison in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Thus says thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, the deep bowl of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body like the ground, and like the street, to them that go over.