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51 “Hear Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock from which you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug.
2 “Consider Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone and blessed him and increased him.”
3 Surely the LORD shall comfort Zion. He shall comfort all her desolations, and He shall make her wastelands like Eden, and her wilderness like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness, praise, and the voice of singing shall be found therein.
4 “Listen to Me, My people. And give ear to Me, O My people. For a Law shall proceed from Me. And I will bring forth My Judgment for the light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near. My salvation goes forth. And My Arm shall judge the people. The isles shall wait for Me, and shall trust in My Arm.
6 “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 those who dwell therein shall perish in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever. And My righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law. Do not fear the reproach of men or be afraid of their rebukes.
8 “For the moth shall eat them up like a garment. And the worm shall eat them like wood. But My righteousness shall be forever. And My salvation from generation to generation.”
9 Rise up! Rise up and put on strength, O Arm of the LORD! Rise up, as long ago in the generations of the world. Are not You the same One Who has cut Rahab to pieces and wounded the dragon?
10 Are not You the same One Who has dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, making the depth of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
11 Therefore, the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with joy to Zion. And everlasting joy shall be upon their head. They shall obtain joy and gladness. Sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 “I, even I, Am He Who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear a mortal man, and the son of man, who shall be made like grass?
13 “And you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker—Who has spread out the heavens and laid the foundations of the Earth—and you have feared continually, all day, because of the rage of the oppressor who is ready to destroy. Where is the rage of the oppressor now?
14 “The captive’s exile hastens, so that he may be freed and not die in the pit and that his bread would not fail.
15 “And I am the LORD your God, Who divided the sea when its waves roared. The LORD of Hosts is His Name.
16 “And I have put My Words in your mouth and have defended you in the shadow of My Hand, so that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundation of the Earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
17 Awaken! Awaken and stand up, O Jerusalem, who has drunk the cup of the LORD’s wrath from His Hand. You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out.
18 There is no one to guide her among all her sons whom she has brought forth. There is no one who takes her by the hand, of all the sons whom she has brought up.
19 These two things have come to you. Who will lament you? Desolation and destruction and famine and the sword, by whom shall I comfort you?
20 Your sons have fainted and lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore, now hear this, you miserable and drunken (but not with wine).
22 Thus says your LORD God, even God Who pleads the cause of His people, “Behold, I have taken the cup of trembling out of your hand, the dregs of the cup of My wrath. You shall drink it no more.
23 “But I will put it into the hand of those who plunder you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down so that we may go over.’ And you have laid your body down as the ground, and as the streets, to those who went over.”
52 Arise! Arise! Put on your strength, O Zion! Put on the garments of your beauty, O Jerusalem, the holy City. For henceforth, the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into you.
2 Shake yourself from the dust. Arise and sit down, O Jerusalem. Loosen the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter Zion!
3 For thus says the LORD: “You were sold for nothing. Therefore, you shall be redeemed without money.”
4 For thus says the Lord GOD: “At first, My people went down into Egypt to sojourn there. And
5 “Now, therefore, what do I have here,” says the LORD, “that My people are taken away for nothing? And those who rule over them make them howl,” says the LORD, “And My Name is continually blasphemed, all day long.
6 “Therefore, My people shall know My Name. Therefore, they shall know on that day that I Am He Who speaks, ‘Behold, it is I.’”
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who declares and publishes peace, who declares good tidings and publishes salvation, saying to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
8 The voice of your watchmen shall be heard. They shall lift up their voices and shout together. For they shall see eye to eye when the LORD shall restore Zion.
9 O, you desolate places of Jerusalem, be glad and rejoice together! For the LORD has comforted His people! He has redeemed Jerusalem!
10 The LORD has made His Holy Arm bare in the sight of all the Gentiles. And all the ends of the Earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there and touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her. Be clean, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste or depart by fleeing away. But the LORD will go before you. And the God of Israel will gather you together.
14 “Just as many were astonished at you, His appearance was more deformed than any other man, and His form more than the sons of men. So shall He sprinkle many nations. The kings shall shut their mouths at Him. For that which had not been told to them, they shall see. And that which they had not heard, they shall understand.”
53 Who will believe our report? And to whom is the Arm of the LORD revealed?
2 But He shall grow up before Him as a branch, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has neither form nor beauty. When we shall see Him, there shall be no form that would cause us to desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men. He is a man full of sorrows and acquainted with sickness. We hid, as it were, our faces from Him. He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely, He has born our sickness and carried our sorrows. Yet, we judged Him as touched and stricken by God, and humbled.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was broken for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him. And with His stripes we are healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned, every one, to his own way. And the LORD has laid the iniquity of us all upon Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted. Yet, He did not open His Mouth. He is brought as a sheep to the slaughter. And as a sheep before her shearer is dumb, so He did not open His Mouth.
8 He was taken out from prison, and from judgment. And who shall declare His age? For He was cut out of the land of the living. For He was plagued for the transgression of my people.
9 And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich, in His death. Though He had done no wickedness. Nor was any deceit in His Mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to break Him and make Him endure grief, when He shall make His soul an Offering for sin. He shall see His seed and shall prolong His days. And the will of the LORD shall prosper in His Hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul and shall be satisfied. “By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many. For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 “Therefore, I will give him a portion with the great. And He shall divide the plunder with the strong, because He has poured out His soul until death. And He was counted with the transgressors. And He bore the sin of many, and prayed for the trespassers.”
5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.
2 And walk in love, just as Christ has loved us and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savor to God.
3 But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness even be named among you (as is also becoming to saints),
4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse joking (which are not fitting); but rather the giving of thanks.
5 For this you know: that no fornicator, nor impure or covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
7 Therefore, do not be companions with them.
8 For you were once darkness but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
9 For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
10 approving that which is pleasing to the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. But rather, even expose them.
12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
13 But all things, when they are exposed by the light, are made visible. For it is light that makes all things visible.
14 Therefore it says, “Awake, you who sleep. And stand up from the dead. And Christ shall shine upon you.”
15 Be mindful, therefore, that you walk carefully - not as fools, but as wise -
16 redeeming the season. For the days are evil.
17 Therefore, be not unwise. But, understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 And do not be drunk with wine (wherein is wastefulness). But, be filled with the Spirit,
19 speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,
20 giving thanks always, for all things, to God, even the Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the wife’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church. And the same is the Savior of the body.
24 But, as the Church is in subjection to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for her;
26 so that He might sanctify her and cleanse her by the washing of water through the Word,
27 So that He might make her a glorious Church to Himself, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. But that it should be holy and without blame.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife, loves himself.
29 For no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord does the Church.
30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife. And the two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great secret. But I speak concerning Christ and concerning the Church.
33 Yet, let every one of you do the same. Let everyone love his wife, even as himself. And let the wife see that she fears her husband.
19 You have known my reproach and my shame and my dishonor. All my adversaries are before You.
20 Rebuke has broken my heart and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to have pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 For they gave Me gall in My food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table be a snare before them, and their prosperity their ruin.
23 Let their eyes be blinded, so that they do not see; and make their loins tremble always.
24 Pour out Your anger upon them, and let Your wrathful displeasure take them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom You have stricken; and they add to the sorrow of those whom You have wounded.
27 Lay iniquity upon their iniquity; and do not let them come into Your righteousness.
28 Let them be put out of the Book of Life. Do not let them be written with the righteous.
29 When I am poor and in heaviness, Your help, O God, shall exalt me.
30 I will praise the Name of God with a song and magnify Him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than a young bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this; and those who seek God shall be glad; and Your heart shall live.
33 For the LORD hears the poor and does not despise prisoners.
34 Let Heaven and Earth praise Him; the seas and all that moves in them!
35 For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, so that men may dwell there and possess it.
36 Also, the seed of His servants shall inherit it; and those who love His Name shall dwell therein. To him who excels: A Psalm of David, to put in remembrance
7 Wisdom is high to a fool. He cannot open his mouth in the gate.
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