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    Isaiah 51

    1 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD! Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry from which you were hewn.ISV — Isaiah 51:1

    2 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 a51:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads blessed him; LXX reads blessed him and loved him and made him many.ISV — Isaiah 51:2

    3 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. b51:3 Or music Sorrow and sighing will flee away. c51:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack this line; cf Isa 51:11ISV — Isaiah 51:3

    4 “Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my nation! For instruction d51:4 Or For the Law will go out from me, and my justice will become a light for the nations. e51:4 Lit. peoples I will quickly bringISV — Isaiah 51:4

    5 my deliverance near; my salvation is on the way. His arm f51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab reads My arms; or My arm; MT LXX read My arms will bring justice to g51:5 The verb is pl. in 1QIsaa MT the nations; h51:5 Lit. peoples the coastlands will hope for him, i51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read me and they will wait for his arm. j51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read my armISV — Isaiah 51:5

    6 “Lift up your eyes, you k51:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read to the heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these. l51:6 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read for the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment Its inhabitants will die just like this; m51:6 Or like gnats but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail.ISV — Isaiah 51:6

    7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my instruction n 51:7 Or Law in their hearts. Don’t fear the insults of mortals, and don’t be dismayed at their hateful words. o51:7 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; spelling differs from MT; LXX reads contemptISV — Isaiah 51:7

    8 For moths will eat them up just like a garment, and worms will devour them like wool; but my deliverance will last p51:8 Lit. be forever, and my salvation to all generations.ISV — Isaiah 51:8

    9 “Awake! Awake! Clothe yourself with strength, you arm q51:9 i.e. the Messiah of the LORD! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of long ago. Was it not you who split apart r51:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac Vulg (cf. Job 26:12). MT LXXmss read cut in pieces Rehob, s51:9 So 1QIsaa MT qere reads Rahab who pierced that sea monster through? t51:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac MT Vulg; LXX lacks Was it…through?ISV — Isaiah 51:9

    10 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in u51:10 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed could cross over?”ISV — Isaiah 51:10

    11 “The scattered ones v51:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read ransomed ones; 1QIsaa corrector wrote redeemed then erased and wrote scattered ones 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 w51:11 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac LXX; MT LXX lack and sorrow and sighing will flee away. x51:11 So 1QIsaa MTms (sing.); cf Isa 51:3; MT (pl.)ISV — Isaiah 51:11

    12 “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 y51:12 1QIsaa MT LXX lack mere men, who have been made z51:12 So 1QIsaa; MT reads are made; LXX reads will be dried up like grass?ISV — Isaiah 51:12

    13 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 aa51:13 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa omitted oppressor’s…the then inserted the missing lines at the top of column 43 oppressor’s fury?ISV — Isaiah 51:13

    14 Distress bb51:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads The cowering one; LXX lacks Distress will quickly be set free. He won’t die in the Pit, cc 51:14 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife nor will he lack food.”ISV — Isaiah 51:14

    15 “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.’ISV — Isaiah 51:15

    16 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.’ISV — Isaiah 51:16

    17 “Awake, Awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD’s hand from the cup that is dd51:17 Lit. hand, the cup of his anger. You have drunk to the dregs the cup that makes you stagger, ee51:17 Lit. the cup of staggering and have drained it.ISV — Isaiah 51:17

    18 There is no one to guide you ff51:18 So 1QIsaa; MT reads no one to guide her; LXX reads no one who comforted you out of all the children she bore, no one to take her by the hand out of all the children she brought up.ISV — Isaiah 51:18

    19 “These twin things have come upon you (who can feel sorry for you?): ruin and destruction, famine and the sword— who can console you?ISV — Isaiah 51:19

    20 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.ISV — Isaiah 51:20

    21 Now listen to this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine:ISV — Isaiah 51:21

    22 This is what your Lord, the LORD, gg51:21 1QIsaa MT; MTms lacks LORD says, your hh51:22 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and your God, who defends his people’s cause: “See, I have taken from your hand the cup that made you stagger. ii51:22 Lit. the cup of staggering And you will never again drink to the dregs the cup that is my anger.ISV — Isaiah 51:22

    23 But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you, jj51:23 So 1QIsaa; MT reads tormented you; LXX reads harmed you and humiliated you those who said to you, ‘Lie down, kk51:23 Lit.bow down 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.”ISV — Isaiah 51:23

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