Jesaja 51

1Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: 2Look at Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you; for when he was a lone individual, 3Yes, Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; 4“Be attentive to me, my people; and listen to me, my people! 5My righteousness is near; my salvation will go out, and my arm will judge the nations; 6Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look at the earth beneath, 7Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your heart: 8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; 9Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, arm of Yahweh. 10Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep, 11The ransomed of Yahweh will return and come to Zion with cries of joy 12“I, I, am he who comforts you. 13Why have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens 14The one who is bent down, Yahweh will hurry to release; he will not die and go down to the pit, nor will he lack bread. 15For I am Yahweh your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves roar—Yahweh of hosts is his name. 16I have placed my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, 17Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, 18There is no one among all the sons she has born to guide her; 19These two troubles happened to you—who will grieve with you?— The Hebrew text and some modern versions have How will I comfort you? , most modern versions correct this passage to Who will comfort you? 20Your sons have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like an antelope in a net; 21But now hear this, you oppressed one and drunken one, but not drunk with wine: 22Your Lord Yahweh, your God, who pleads the cause of his people, says this,