{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/51","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T00:28:42.176Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":51,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":50,"nextChapter":52,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look to the rock from where you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from where you are dig."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Listen to me, my people; and give ear to 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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait on me, and on my arm shall they trust."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on 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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Listen to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Are you not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that has made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, You are my people."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"These two things are come to you; who shall be sorry for you?  desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Your 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 your God."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thus said your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid your body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 51 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Isaiah 51](https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/51)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/51 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}