Isaiah 51:12-16

Everlasting Salvation for Zion

¹² “I, even I, am he who comforts you.
    Who are you that you fear mere mortals, 
    human beings who are but grass, 
¹³ that you forget the Lord your Maker, 
    who stretches out the heavens 
    and who lays the foundations of the earth,
that you live in constant terror every day
    because of the wrath of the oppressor,
    who is bent on destruction?
For where is the wrath of the oppressor? 
¹⁴     The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; 
they will not die in their dungeon,
    nor will they lack bread. 
¹⁵ For I am the Lord your God,
    who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar —
    the Lord Almighty is his name.
¹⁶ I have put my words in your mouth 
    and covered you with the shadow of my hand —
I who set the heavens in place,
    who laid the foundations of the earth, 
    and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people. ’”

51 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness 
    and who seek the Lord:
Look to the rock from which you were cut
    and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
² look to Abraham, your father,
    and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
When I called him he was only one man,
    and I blessed him and made him many. 
³ The Lord will surely comfort Zion 
    and will look with compassion on all her ruins; 
he will make her deserts like Eden, 
    her wastelands like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
    thanksgiving and the sound of singing.