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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Sin and the Servant&#8217;s Obedience</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your mother&#8217;s certificate of divorce</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">with which I sent her away?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Or to which of my creditors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">did I sell you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Because of your sins you were sold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When I came, why was there no one?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">When I called, why was there no one to answer?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Was my arm too short to deliver you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Do I lack the strength to rescue you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">I turn rivers into a desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">their fish rot for lack of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">and die of thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I clothe the heavens with darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">and make sackcloth its covering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me a well-instructed tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">to know the word that sustains the weary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">He wakens me morning by morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has opened my ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not been rebellious,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not turned away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I offered my back to those who beat me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">I did not hide my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">from mocking and spitting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Because the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helps me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">I will not be disgraced.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">Therefore have I set my face like flint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">and I know I will not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He who vindicates me is near.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who then will bring charges against me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let us face each other!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who is my accuser?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let him confront me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It is the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who helps me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">Who will condemn me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">They will all wear out like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">the moths will eat them up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who among you fears the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and obeys the word of his servant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">Let the one who walks in the dark,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">who has no light,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">trust in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and rely on their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now, all you who light fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and provide yourselves with flaming torches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">go, walk in the light of your fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and of the torches you have set ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">This is what you shall receive from my hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">You will lie down in torment.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch51" data-usfm="ISA.51">
         <div class="label">51</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Everlasting Salvation for Zion</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">Look to the rock from which you were cut</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and to the quarry from which you were hewn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">look to Abraham, your father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and to Sarah, who gave you birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">When I called him he was only one man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and I blessed him and made him many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely comfort Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">and will look with compassion on all her ruins;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">he will make her deserts like Eden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">her wastelands like the garden of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">Joy and gladness will be found in her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">thanksgiving and the sound of singing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">hear me, my nation:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">Instruction will go out from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">my justice will become a light to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My righteousness draws near speedily,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">my salvation is on the way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and my arm will bring justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">The islands will look to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and wait in hope for my arm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lift up your eyes to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">look at the earth beneath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the heavens will vanish like smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the earth will wear out like a garment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">and its inhabitants die like flies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">But my salvation will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">my righteousness will never fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear me, you who know what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">you people who have taken my instruction to heart:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">or be terrified by their insults.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the moth will eat them up like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">the worm will devour them like wool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">But my righteousness will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">my salvation through all generations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Awake, awake, arm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">clothe yourself with strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Awake, as in days gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">as in generations of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">who pierced that monster through?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Was it not you who dried up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">the waters of the great deep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">who made a road in the depths of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">so that the redeemed might cross over?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Those the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rescued will return.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">They will enter Zion with singing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">everlasting joy will crown their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">Gladness and joy will overtake them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">and sorrow and sighing will flee away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, even I, am he who comforts you.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">Who are you that you fear mere mortals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">human beings who are but grass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">that you forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your Maker,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who stretches out the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">and who lays the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">that you live in constant terror every day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">because of the wrath of the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who is bent on destruction?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">For where is the wrath of the oppressor?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">they will not die in their dungeon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">nor will they lack bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have put my words in your mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and covered you with the shadow of my hand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">I who set the heavens in place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">who laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and who say to Zion, &#8216;You are my people.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Cup of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Wrath</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Awake, awake!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">Rise up, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drunk from the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the cup of his wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drained to its dregs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the goblet that makes people stagger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Among all the children she bore</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to guide her;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">among all the children she reared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to take her by the hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These double calamities have come upon you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can comfort you?&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">ruin and destruction, famine and sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:19 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">/ how can I</span></span></span><span class="content"> console you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Your children have fainted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">they lie at every street corner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">like antelope caught in a net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">They are filled with the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">with the rebuke of your God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">made drunk, but not with wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is what your Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">your God, who defends his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I have taken out of your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">the cup that made you stagger;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">you will never drink again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">who said to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">&#8216;Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">And you made your back like the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">like a street to be walked on.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">52</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Awake, awake, Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">clothe yourself with strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Put on your garments of splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Jerusalem, the holy city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">The uncircumcised and defiled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">will not enter you again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Shake off your dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Free yourself from the chains on your neck,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Daughter Zion, now a captive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">&#8220;You were sold for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">and without money you will be redeemed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">&#8220;At first my people went down to Egypt to live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">lately, Assyria has oppressed them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now what do I have here?&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">&#8220;For my people have been taken away for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">and those who rule them mock,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:5 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">wail</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">&#8220;And all day long</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">my name is constantly blasphemed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore my people will know my name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">therefore in that day they will know</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">that it is I who foretold it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">Yes, it is I.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How beautiful on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">are the feet of those who bring good news,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who proclaim peace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who bring good tidings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who proclaim salvation,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who say to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Your God reigns!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">together they shout for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> returns to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">they will see it with their own eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Burst into songs of joy together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">you ruins of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has comforted his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">he has redeemed Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will lay bare his holy arm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">in the sight of all the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">and all the ends of the earth will see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">the salvation of our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Depart, depart, go out from there!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">Touch no unclean thing!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">Come out from it and be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">you who carry the articles of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But you will not leave in haste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">or go in flight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will go before you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">the God of Israel will be your rear guard.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Suffering and Glory of the Servant</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">See, my servant will act wisely</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will prosper</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Just as there were many who were appalled at him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">and his form marred beyond human likeness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so he will sprinkle many nations,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">so will many nations be amazed at him </span><span class="ft">(see also Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">and kings will shut their mouths because of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">For what they were not told, they will see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">and what they have not heard, they will understand.</span></span></div><div 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         <div class="label">53</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Who has believed our message</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="content">and to whom has the arm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> been revealed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He grew up before him like a tender shoot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">and like a root out of dry ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was despised and rejected by mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">Like one from whom people hide their faces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surely he took up our pain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">and bore our suffering,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">yet we considered him punished by God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">stricken by him, and afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But he was pierced for our transgressions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">he was crushed for our iniquities;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">the punishment that brought us peace was on him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">and by his wounds we are healed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We all, like sheep, have gone astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">each of us has turned to our own way;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has laid on him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">the iniquity of us all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He was oppressed and afflicted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">yet he did not open his mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">so he did not open his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By oppression</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">From arrest</span></span></span><span class="content"> and judgment he was taken away.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">Yet who of his generation protested?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">For he was cut off from the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">for the transgression of my people he was punished.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He was assigned a grave with the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">and with the rich in his death,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">though he had done no violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">nor was any deceit in his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">and though the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> makes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">though you make</span></span></span><span class="content"> his life an offering for sin,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">he will see his offspring and prolong his days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">and the will of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will prosper in his hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After he has suffered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">he will see the light of life</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">the light of life</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and be satisfied</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Or (with Masoretic Text) </span><span class="fv">11 </span><span class="fqa">He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">by his knowledge</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">by knowledge of him</span></span></span><span class="content"> my righteous servant will justify many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">and he will bear their iniquities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">many</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and he will divide the spoils with the strong,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">numerous</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">because he poured out his life unto death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and was numbered with the transgressors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">For he bore the sin of many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and made intercession for the transgressors.</span></span></div>
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