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Isaiah 51 Smith's Literal Translation
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joy and gladness shall be found in her confession, and the voice of song.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Attend to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will cause my judgment to rest for the light of the peoples.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My justice is near; my salvation went forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and to mine arm shall they hope.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth from beneath: for the heavens as smoke vanished away, and the earth as a garment shall decay, and they inhabiting as thus shall die; and my salvation shall be forever, and my justice shall not be broken.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Hear to me, ye knowing justice, the people my law in their heart; ye shall not fear the reproach of men; and from their reviling ye shall not be dismayed.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Rouse up, rouse up, put on strength, thou arm of Jehovah; rouse up as the days of old, of everlasting generations. Was it not with him cutting off Rahab, wounding the sea monster?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Was it not with him desolating the sea, the water of the great deep? setting the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the redeemed of Jehovah shall turn back, and they came to Zion with shouting and eternal joy upon their head: and gladness and joy shall they attain; sorrow and sighing fled.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I, I am he comforting you: who thou? and shalt thou be afraid of man he shall die, and of the son of man shall be given for grass?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And shalt thou forget Jehovah making thee, stretching out the heavens and founding the earth? and thou wilt tremble continually all the day from the face of the anger of him pressing as being prepared to destroy: and where the wrath of him pressing?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He being bowed down hastened to be loosed, and he will not die in the pit, and his bread shall not fail. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I am Jehovah thy God causing the sea to tremble. And its billows shall be put in motion: Jehovah of armies his name. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I will put my word in thy mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I covered thee, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou my people.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Fury Removed<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, who drank from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou didst drink the goblet cup of reeling, pressing out.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>None providing for her of all the sons she brought forth; and none holding by her hand of all the sons she caused to grow.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>These two encountering thee; who shall be moved for thee? desolation and breaking, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Thy sons fainted; they lay down upon the head of all the streets as an antelope in a net: being full of the wrath of Jehovah the rebuke of thy God.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For this, bear now this, thou afflicted and drunken, and not from wine:<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thus said thy Lord Jehovah and thy God, he will contend for his people, Behold, I took from thy hand the cup of reeling, the goblet cup of my wrath; thou shalt not add to drink it more.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I put it in the hand of those afflicting thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, and we will pass over; thou wilt set thy middle as the earth, and as the street to those passing over.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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