Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 051
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Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
seek HaShem; look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit
whence ye were digged
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Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore
you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many
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For HaShem hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her
waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the
garden of HaShem; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the
voice of melody
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Attend unto Me, O My people, and give ear unto Me, O My
nation; for instruction shall go forth from Me, and My right on a sudden for a
light of the peoples
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My favour is near, My salvation is gone forth, and Mine
arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for Me, and on Mine arm shall
they trust
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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 wax
old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner; but My
salvation shall be for ever, and My favour shall not be abolished
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Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
whose heart is My law; fear ye not the taunt of men, neither be ye dismayed at
their revilings
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For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
shall eat them like wool; but My favour shall be for ever, and My salvation unto
all generations
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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of HaShem; awake, as
in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Art thou not it that hewed
Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon
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Art thou not it that dried up the sea, the waters of the
great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over
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And the ransomed of HaShem shall return, and come with
singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall
obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away
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I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that
thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made
as grass
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And hast forgotten HaShem thy Maker, that stretched forth
the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all
the day because of the fury of the oppressor, as he maketh ready to destroy? And
where is the fury of the oppressor
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He that is bent down shall speedily be loosed; and he
shall not go down dying into the pit, neither shall his bread fail
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For I am HaShem thy G-d, who stirreth up the sea, that the
waves thereof roar; HaShem of hosts is His name
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And I have put My words in thy mouth, and have covered
thee in the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion: 'Thou art My people.
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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at
the hand of HaShem the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the beaker, even the
cup of staggering, and drained it
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There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she
hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the
sons that she hath brought up
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These two things are befallen thee; who shall bemoan thee?
desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort
thee
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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the fury of HaShem, the
rebuke of thy G-d
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Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but
not with wine
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Thus saith thy L-rd HaShem, and thy G-d that pleadeth the
cause of His people: behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering;
the beaker, even the cup of My fury, thou shalt no more drink it again
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And I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
that have said to thy soul: 'Bow down, that we may go over'; and thou hast laid
thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over
Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 051
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