“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, Isa 51:7Psa 94:15Heb 12:14Psa 105:3-4Rom 14:19Rom 9:30-322Ti 2:22Amo 5:6
you who seek the LORD.
Look to the rock you were cut from,
and to the quarry you were dug from.
Look to Abraham your father, Ezk 33:24Gal 3:9-14Rom 4:1-5Heb 11:8-12Gen 18:11-13Gen 24:1Isa 29:22Gen 12:1-3
and to Sarah who bore you;
for when he was but one I called him,
I blessed him,
and made him many.
For the LORD has comforted Zion. Isa 49:13Isa 52:9Jol 2:31Pe 1:8Gen 13:10Jer 31:12-14Jer 31:25Jer 33:11-13
He has comforted all her waste places,
and has made her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the LORD.
Joy and gladness will be found in them,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
“Listen to me, my people; 1Pe 2:91Co 9:21Isa 2:3Isa 42:6Isa 49:6Mic 4:2Psa 78:1Exo 19:6
and hear me, my nation,
for a law will go out from me,
and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
My righteousness is near. Rom 10:17-18Isa 46:13Isa 42:4Isa 60:9Rom 10:6-102Co 5:10Jol 3:12Luk 24:47
My salvation has gone out,
and my arms will judge the peoples.
The islands will wait for me,
and they will trust my arm.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, Mat 24:35Psa 102:25-26Heb 1:10-12Isa 34:4Rev 6:12-14Jhn 3:15-162Pe 3:10-12Jhn 10:27-29
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like a garment.
Its inhabitants will die in the same way,
but my salvation will be forever,
and my righteousness will not be abolished.
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, Mat 5:11Ezk 2:6Psa 37:311Pe 4:14Act 5:41Isa 51:11Pe 4:42Co 3:3
the people in whose heart is my law.
Don’t fear the reproach of men,
and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
For the moth will eat them up like a garment, Isa 51:6Isa 50:9Isa 66:24Hos 5:12Job 4:19Luk 1:50Isa 45:17Isa 46:13
and the worm will eat them like wool;
but my righteousness will be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.”
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Psa 74:13-14Isa 52:1Psa 89:10Isa 27:1Isa 30:7Ezk 29:3Isa 51:17Job 26:12
Awake, as in the days of old,
the generations of ancient times.
Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the monster?
Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, Isa 43:16Exo 14:21-22Exo 15:13Isa 50:2Isa 63:11-12Isa 42:15Psa 74:13
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
Those ransomed by the LORD will return, Isa 25:8Rev 21:4Rev 7:17Isa 35:102Th 2:16Isa 61:7Jer 33:11Isa 60:19-20
and come with singing to Zion.
Everlasting joy shall be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy.
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Psa 118:61Pe 1:24Isa 2:22Jhn 14:26-272Co 1:3-5Jhn 14:18Jas 1:10-11Isa 66:13
Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker, Isa 17:10Isa 40:22Isa 45:12Psa 104:21Co 1:20Dan 3:19Isa 44:24Isa 48:13
who stretched out the heavens,
and laid the foundations of the earth?
Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor,
when he prepares to destroy?
Where is the fury of the oppressor?
The captive exile will speedily be freed. Isa 48:20Zec 9:11Isa 52:2Act 12:7-8Isa 49:10Ezr 1:5Jer 38:6-13Jer 37:16
He will not die and go down into the pit.
His bread won’t fail.
For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea Jer 31:35Isa 54:5Amo 9:5-6Isa 47:4Isa 51:10Jer 10:16Psa 114:3-5Psa 136:13
so that its waves roar.
the LORD of Armies is his name.
I have put my words in your mouth Isa 59:21Isa 49:2Jhn 17:8Deu 18:18Jer 31:33Isa 66:22Isa 48:13Isa 50:4
and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
that I may plant the heavens,
and lay the foundations of the earth,
and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
Awake, awake! Isa 52:1Rev 14:101Co 15:34Eph 5:14Isa 51:9Job 21:20Psa 60:3Psa 11:6
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the LORD’s hand the cup of his wrath.
You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,
and drained it.
There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; Isa 49:21Psa 88:18Isa 41:13Isa 45:1Mat 15:14Mat 9:36Mrk 8:23Psa 142:4
and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.
These two things have happened to you— Amo 7:2Isa 47:92Co 7:132Co 7:6-7Ecc 4:1Ezk 14:21Isa 14:30Isa 22:4
who will grieve with you?—
desolation and destruction,
and famine and the sword.
How can I comfort you?
Your sons have fainted. Lam 2:11-12Rev 16:9-11Deu 14:5Ezk 12:13Ezk 17:20Ezk 39:19Isa 29:9Isa 49:26
They lie at the head of all the streets,
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the LORD’s wrath,
the rebuke of your God.
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, Isa 29:9Isa 51:17Isa 54:11
and drunken, but not with wine:
Your Lord GOD, Pro 22:23Isa 51:17Isa 62:8Jer 50:34Isa 49:25Psa 35:11Sa 25:39Jol 3:2
your God who pleads the cause of his people, says,
“Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering,
even the bowl of the cup of my wrath.
You will not drink it any more.
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, Jos 10:24Zec 12:2Isa 49:25-26Jer 25:15-29Pro 11:8Pro 21:18Psa 65:11-12Rev 11:2
who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’
and you have laid your back as the ground,
like a street to those who walk over.”