¹ Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look to the rock where you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit where you are dug. 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 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; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. ⁴ Listen to me, my people; and listen 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 forward, and mine arms will judge the people; the isles will wait on me, and on mine arm will they trust. ⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath: for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will grow old like a garment, and those dwell in it will die in like manner: but my salvation will be forever, 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 rebuke of men, neither be 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 forever, and my salvation from generation to generation. ⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; 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 will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on 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 your maker, that has stretched forward 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 hurried that he may be released, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. ¹⁵ But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. ¹⁶ And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of mine 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 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 Who she has brought forward neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up. ¹⁹ These two things have come to you; who will be sorry for you? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by who 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, the rebuke of your God. ²¹ Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine ²² So says your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, See, 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.