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Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry from which you were hewn. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-2.htm">2</a>Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. For when he was only one person I called him, but I made him fruitful<a href="#ftn" title="51:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads blessed him; LXX reads blessed him and loved him">a</a> and made him many. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-3.htm">3</a>For the LORD will have compassion on Zion, have compassion on all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her deserts like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of singing.<a href="#ftn" title="51:3 Or music">b</a> Sorrow and sighing will flee away.<a href="#ftn" title="51:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack this line; cf Isa 51:11">c</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-4.htm">4</a>“Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my nation! For instruction<a href="#ftn" title="51:4 Or For the Law">d</a> will go out from me, and my justice will become a light for the nations.<a href="#ftn" title="51:4 Lit. peoples">e</a> I will quickly bring <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-5.htm">5</a>my deliverance near; my salvation is on the way. His arm<a href="#ftn" title="51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab reads My arms; or My arm; MT LXX read My arms ">f</a> will bring justice to<a href="#ftn" title="51:5 The verb is pl. in 1QIsaa MT">g</a> the nations;<a href="#ftn" title="51:5 Lit. peoples">h</a> the coastlands will hope for him,<a href="#ftn" title="51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read me">i</a> and they will wait for his arm.<a href="#ftn" title="51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read my arm">j</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-6.htm">6</a>“Lift up your eyes, you<a href="#ftn" title="51:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read to the">k</a> heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these.<a href="#ftn" title="51:6 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read for the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment">l</a> Its inhabitants will die just like this;<a href="#ftn" title="51:6 Or like gnats">m</a> but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-7.htm">7</a>Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my instruction<a href="#ftn" title=" 51:7 Or Law">n</a> in their hearts. Don’t fear the insults of mortals, and don’t be dismayed at their hateful words.<a href="#ftn" title="51:7 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; spelling differs from MT; LXX reads contempt">o</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-8.htm">8</a>For moths will eat them up just like a garment, and worms will devour them like wool; but my deliverance will last<a href="#ftn" title="51:8 Lit. be">p</a> forever, and my salvation to all generations. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-9.htm">9</a>“Awake! Awake! Clothe yourself with strength, you arm<a href="#ftn" title="51:9 i.e. the Messiah">q</a> of the LORD! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of long ago. Was it not you who split apart<a href="#ftn" title="51:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac Vulg (cf. Job 26:12). MT LXXmss read cut in pieces ">r</a> Rehob,<a href="#ftn" title="51:9 So 1QIsaa MT qere reads Rahab">s</a> who pierced that sea monster through?<a href="#ftn" title="51:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac MT Vulg; LXX lacks Was it…through?">t</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-10.htm">10</a>Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in<a href="#ftn" title="51:10 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack in">u</a> the depths of the sea so that the redeemed could cross over?” A Promise of Return to the Land<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-11.htm">11</a>“The scattered ones<a href="#ftn" title="51:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read ransomed ones; 1QIsaa corrector wrote redeemed then erased and wrote scattered ones">v</a> of the LORD will return, and they will enter Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will be upon their heads; they will attain joy and gladness, and<a href="#ftn" title="51:11 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac LXX; MT LXX lack and">w</a> sorrow and sighing will flee away.<a href="#ftn" title="51:11 So 1QIsaa MTms (sing.); cf Isa 51:3; MT (pl.)">x</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-12.htm">12</a>“I—yes, I—am the one who comforts you. Who are you, that you are so afraid of humans who will die, descendants of mere<a href="#ftn" title="51:12 1QIsaa MT LXX lack mere">y</a> men, who have been made<a href="#ftn" title="51:12 So 1QIsaa; MT reads are made; LXX reads will be dried up">z</a> like grass? <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-13.htm">13</a>As a result, you have forgotten the LORD who made you, who stretched out the heavens and laid the earth’s foundations, and you live in constant fear every day because of the oppressor’s fury, since he’s ready to destroy. Now where is the<a href="#ftn" title="51:13 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa omitted oppressor’s…the then inserted the missing lines at the top of column 43">aa</a> oppressor’s fury? <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-14.htm">14</a>Distress<a href="#ftn" title="51:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads The cowering one; LXX lacks Distress">bb</a> will quickly be set free. He won’t die in the Pit,<a href="#ftn" title=" 51:14 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife">cc</a> nor will he lack food.” A Promise of Restoration<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-15.htm">15</a>“For I am the LORD your God, who churns up the sea, so that its waves roar, ‘The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name.’ <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-16.htm">16</a>I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of my hand, so that I could plant the heavens and lay the earth’s foundations, to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-17.htm">17</a>“Awake, Awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD’s hand from the cup that is<a href="#ftn" title="51:17 Lit. hand, the cup of">dd</a> his anger. You have drunk to the dregs the cup that makes you stagger,<a href="#ftn" title="51:17 Lit. the cup of staggering">ee</a> and have drained it. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-18.htm">18</a>There is no one to guide you<a href="#ftn" title="51:18 So 1QIsaa; MT reads no one to guide her; LXX reads no one who comforted you">ff</a> out of all the children she bore, no one to take her by the hand out of all the children she brought up. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-19.htm">19</a>“These twin things have come upon you (who can feel sorry for you?): ruin and destruction, famine and the sword— who can console you? <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-20.htm">20</a>Your children have fainted. They lie at the head of every street, like antelope caught in a trap, filled with the anger of the LORD and the rebuke of your God. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-21.htm">21</a>Now listen to this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine: <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-22.htm">22</a>This is what your Lord, the LORD,<a href="#ftn" title="51:21 1QIsaa MT; MTms lacks LORD">gg</a> says, your<a href="#ftn" title="51:22 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and your">hh</a> God, who defends his people’s cause: “See, I have taken from your hand the cup that made you stagger.<a href="#ftn" title="51:22 Lit. the cup of staggering">ii</a> And you will never again drink to the dregs the cup that is my anger. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/51-23.htm">23</a>But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you,<a href="#ftn" title="51:23 So 1QIsaa; MT reads tormented you; LXX reads harmed you and humiliated you">jj</a> those who said to you, ‘Lie down,<a href="#ftn" title="51:23 Lit.bow down">kk</a> so we can step over you,’ so that you had to make your back like the ground, and like a street for them to walk over.”<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><A name="ftn"></a>Footnotes: a 51:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads blessed him; LXX reads blessed him and loved him b 51:3 Or music c 51:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack this line; cf Isa 51:11 d 51:4 Or For the Law e 51:4 Lit. peoples f 51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab reads My arms; or My arm; MT LXX read My arms g 51:5 The verb is pl. in 1QIsaa MT h 51:5 Lit. peoples i 51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read me j 51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read my arm k 51:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read to the l 51:6 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read for the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment m 51:6 Or like gnats n 51:7 Or Law o 51:7 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; spelling differs from MT; LXX reads contempt p 51:8 Lit. be q 51:9 i.e. the Messiah r 51:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac Vulg (cf. Job 26:12). MT LXXmss read cut in pieces s 51:9 So 1QIsaa MT qere reads Rahab t 51:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac MT Vulg; LXX lacks Was it…through? u 51:10 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack in v 51:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read ransomed ones; 1QIsaa corrector wrote redeemed then erased and wrote scattered ones w 51:11 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac LXX; MT LXX lack and x 51:11 So 1QIsaa MTms (sing.); cf Isa 51:3; MT (pl.) y 51:12 1QIsaa MT LXX lack mere z 51:12 So 1QIsaa; MT reads are made; LXX reads will be dried up aa 51:13 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa omitted oppressor’s…the then inserted the missing lines at the top of column 43 bb 51:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads The cowering one; LXX lacks Distress cc 51:14 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife dd 51:17 Lit. hand, the cup of ee 51:17 Lit. the cup of staggering ff 51:18 So 1QIsaa; MT reads no one to guide her; LXX reads no one who comforted you gg 51:21 1QIsaa MT; MTms lacks LORD hh 51:22 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and your ii 51:22 Lit. the cup of staggering jj 51:23 So 1QIsaa; MT reads tormented you; LXX reads harmed you and humiliated you kk 51:23 Lit.bow down <hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/isaiah/51-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"> <div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"> </div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>