Isaiah 51:2

Isaiah 51:2

The Lord Comforts Zion

1 “Listen to Me, ^ayou who follow after righteousness,
You who seek the Lord:
Look to the rock from which you were hewn,
And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.

2 ^aLook to Abraham your father,
And to Sarah who bore you;
^bFor I called him alone,
And ^cblessed him and increased him.”

3 For the Lord will ^acomfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert ^blike the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

4 “Listen to Me, My people;
And give ear to Me, O My nation:
^aFor law will proceed from Me,
And I will make My justice rest
^bAs a light of the peoples.

5 ^aMy righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
^bAnd My arms will judge the peoples;
^cThe coastlands will wait upon Me,
And ^don My arm they will trust.

6 ^aLift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look on the earth beneath.
For ^bthe heavens will vanish away like smoke,
^cThe earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be ^dforever,
And My righteousness will not be¹ abolished.

7 “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
You people ^ain whose heart is My law:
^bDo not fear the reproach of men,
Nor be afraid of their insults.

8 For ^athe moth will eat them up like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool;
But My righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation from generation to generation.”

9 ^aAwake, awake, ^bput on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake ^cas in the ancient days,
In the generations of old.
^dAre You not the arm that cut ^eRahab apart,
And wounded the ^fserpent?

10 Are You not the One who ^adried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
That made the depths of the sea a road
For the redeemed to cross over?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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alone—translate, "I called him when he was but one" (Ezekiel 33:24). The argument is: the same God who had so blessed "one" individual, as to become a mighty nation (Genesis 12:1; Genesis 22:7), can also increase and bless the small remnant of Israel, both that left in the Babylonish captivity, and that left in the present and latter days (Zechariah 14:2); "the residue" (Isaiah 13:8-9).

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