1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock
whenceye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whenceye are digged.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah thatbare you: for I called him alone, and
blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found
therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from
me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness isnear; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people;
the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
6 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 righteousness shall not be
abolished.
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart ismy law; fear ye
not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my
righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the
generations of old. Artthou not it that hath cut Rahab, andwounded the dragon?
10 Artthou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the
depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall beupon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; andsorrow and
mourning shall flee away.
12 I, evenI, amhe that comforteth you: who artthou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man
thatshall die, and of the son of man whichshall be made asgrass;
13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the
foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where isthe fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor
that his bread should fail.
15 But I amthe LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is
his name.
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand,
that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art
my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of
his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, andwrung themout.
18 There isnone to guide her among all the sons whomshe hath brought forth; neither is there
anythat taketh her by the hand of all the sons thatshe hath brought up.
19 These two thingsare come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and
destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are
full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God thatpleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I
have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, eventhe dregs of the cup of my fury; thou

shalt no more drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow
down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them
that went over.
1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the
holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, andsit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands
of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without
money.
4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and
the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought?
they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day
isblasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall knowin that day that I amhe
that doth speak: behold, it isI.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto
Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall
see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath
comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the
earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of
her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the
God of Israel will beyour rereward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form
more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for thatwhich
had not been told them shall they see; and thatwhich they had not heard shall they consider.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no
form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there isno beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid
as it were ourfaces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he waswounded for our transgressions, he wasbruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace wasupon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb
to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he

was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no
violence, neither was anydeceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put himto grief: when thou shalt make his
soul an offering for sin, he shall see hisseed, he shall prolong hisdays, and the pleasure of the
LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, andshall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portionwith the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
1 Sing, O barren, thou thatdidst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that
didst not travail with child: for more arethe children of the desolate than the children of the
married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations:
spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the
Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put
to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of
thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy Maker isthine husband; the LORD of hosts ishis name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One
of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth,
when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I
have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
9 For this is asthe waters of Noah unto me: for asI have sworn that the waters of Noah should
no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart
from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy
on thee.
11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, andnot comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with
fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of
pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children shall betaught of the LORD; and great shall bethe peace of thy children.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt
not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, butnot by me: whosoever shall gather together
against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth
an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue thatshall rise
against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This isthe heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and their righteousness isof me, saith the LORD.
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy,
and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.