IsaiahJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicShareIsaiah 51WEB - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Isaiah 1Isaiah 2Isaiah 3Isaiah 4Isaiah 5Isaiah 6Isaiah 7Isaiah 8Isaiah 9Isaiah 10Isaiah 11Isaiah 12Isaiah 13Isaiah 14Isaiah 15Isaiah 16Isaiah 17Isaiah 18Isaiah 19Isaiah 20Isaiah 21Isaiah 22Isaiah 23Isaiah 24Isaiah 25Isaiah 26Isaiah 27Isaiah 28Isaiah 29Isaiah 30Isaiah 31Isaiah 32Isaiah 33Isaiah 34Isaiah 35Isaiah 36Isaiah 37Isaiah 38Isaiah 39Isaiah 40Isaiah 41Isaiah 42Isaiah 43Isaiah 44Isaiah 45Isaiah 46Isaiah 47Isaiah 48Isaiah 49Isaiah 50Isaiah 51Isaiah 52Isaiah 53Isaiah 54Isaiah 55Isaiah 56Isaiah 57Isaiah 58Isaiah 59Isaiah 60Isaiah 61Isaiah 62Isaiah 63Isaiah 64Isaiah 65Isaiah 66›Isaiah 51ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from. 2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many. 3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 4“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples. 5My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm. 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished. 7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults. 8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.” 9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster? 10Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? 11Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 12“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass? 13Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor? 14The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail. 15For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name. 16I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ” 17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. 18There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up. 19These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you? 20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God. 21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more. 23I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.” ‹Previous chapterIsaiah 50Next chapterIsaiah 52›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsIsaiah 51 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain