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\c 51
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\q1
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\v 1 Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek Yahweh:
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\q1 look at the rock from which you were chiseled and to the quarry from which you were cut.
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\v 2 Look at Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you; for when he was a lone individual,
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\q1 I called him. I blessed him and made him many.
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\q1
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\v 3 Yes, Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places;
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\q1 her wilderness he made like Eden, and her desert plains beside the Jordan River valley like the garden of Yahweh;
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\q1 joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of singing.
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\v 4 "Be attentive to me, my people; and listen to me, my people!
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\q1 For I will issue a decree, and I will make my justice to be a light for the nations.
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\v 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation will go out, and my arm will judge the nations;
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\q1 the coastlands will wait for me; for my arm they will eagerly wait.
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\v 6 Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look at the earth beneath,
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\q1 for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, the
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earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die like flies.
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\q1 But my salvation will continue forever, and my righteousness will never stop working.
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\v 7 Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your heart:
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\q1 Do not fear the insults of men, nor be disheartened by their abuse.
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\v 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool;
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\q1 but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
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\v 9 Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, arm of Yahweh.
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\q1 Awake as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times.
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\q1 Is it not you who crushed the sea monster, you who pierced the dragon?
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\v 10 Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep,
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\q1 and make the depths of the sea into a way for the redeemed to pass through?
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\v 11 The ransomed of Yahweh will return and come to Zion with cries of joy
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\q1 and with gladness forever on their heads; and gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and mourning will flee away.
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\v 12 "I, I, am he who comforts you.
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\q1 Why are you afraid of men, who will die, the sons of men, who are made like grass?
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\v 13 Why have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens
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\q1 and laid the foundations of the earth? You are in constant dread every day
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\q1 because of the hot fury of the oppressor when he decides to destroy. Where is the fury of the oppressor?
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\v 14 The one who is bent down, Yahweh will hurry to release; he will not die and go down to the pit, nor will he lack bread.
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\v 15 For I am Yahweh your God, who churns up the sea, so that its waves roar—Yahweh of hosts is his name.
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\v 16 I have placed my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
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\q1 that I may plant the heavens, lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, 'You are my people.'"
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\v 17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem,
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\q1 you who drank the bowl of Yahweh's anger from his hand;
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\q1 you drank the bowl, the bowl of staggering, and you drained it.
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\v 18 There is no one among all the sons she has born to guide her;
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\q1 there is no one among all the sons that she has raised to take her by the hand.
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\v 19 These two troubles happened to you—who will grieve with you?—
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\q1 desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. Who will comfort you?
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\f + \ft The Hebrew text and some modern versions have \fqa How will I comfort you? \fqb , most modern versions correct this passage to \fqa Who will comfort you? \fqb . \f*
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\v 20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like an antelope in a net;
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\q1 they are filled with the anger of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.
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\v 21 But now hear this, you oppressed one and drunken one, but not drunk with wine:
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\v 22 Your Lord Yahweh, your God, who pleads the cause of his people, says this,
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\q1 "See, I have taken the cup of staggering from your hand—
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\q1 the bowl of the cup of my anger—so that you will not drink it again.
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\v 23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, those who have said to you, 'Lie down, that we may walk over you';
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\q1 you made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on."
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