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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 51 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/51.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/51-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Isaiah 51</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/50.htm" title="Isaiah 50">◄</a> Isaiah 51 <a href="../isaiah/52.htm" title="Isaiah 52">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/51-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Salvation for Zion<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord: look to the solid rock, which ye have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which ye have dug.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Look to Abraam your father, and to Sarrha that bore you: for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And now I will comfort thee, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear me, hear me, my people; and ye kings, hearken to me: for a law shall proceed from me, and my judgment <i>shall be</i> for a light of the nations.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My righteousness speedily draws nigh, and my salvation shall go forth as light, and on mine arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.<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 sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Hear me, ye that know judgment, the people in whose heart is my law: fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, <i>so shall they be consumed</i>; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for all generations.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, <i>even</i> the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>for by <i>the help of</i> the Lord they shall return, and come to Sion with joy and everlasting exultation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I, <i>even</i> I, am he that comforts thee: consider who thou art, that thou wast afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who are withered as grass.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And thou hast forgotten God who made thee, who made the sky and founded the earth; and thou wert continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted thee: for <i>whereas</i> he counselled to take thee away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted thee?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For in thy deliverance he shall not halt, nor tarry; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>for I am thy God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will put my words into thy mouth, and I will shelter thee under the shadow of mine hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and <i>the Lord</i> shall say to Sion, Thou art 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>Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thine hand, not even of all the children whom thou has reared.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, and drunken, <i>but</i> not with wine;<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it any more.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/51-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/50.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 50"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 50" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/52.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 52"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 52" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>