¹ “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, ² Look to Abraham your father, ³ For the LORD has comforted Zion. ⁴ “Listen to me, my people; ⁵ My righteousness is near. ⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, ⁷ “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
Don’t fear the reproach of men, ⁸ For the moth will eat them up like a garment, ⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD!
Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, ¹⁰ Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, ¹¹ Those ransomed by the LORD will return, ¹² “I, even I, am he who comforts you. ¹³ Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker,
Where is the fury of the oppressor? ¹⁴ The captive exile will speedily be freed. ¹⁵ For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar. ¹⁶ I have put my words in your mouth ¹⁷ Awake, awake! ¹⁸ There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; ¹⁹ These two things have happened to you— ²⁰ Your sons have fainted. ²¹ Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, ²² Your Lord GOD,
“Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, ²³ I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,