{"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/web/isaiah/51","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:19:49.264Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For 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 shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"|Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for 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 those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults."},{"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 forever, and my salvation to all generations.|"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Awake, 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?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Isn'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?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|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 shall be made as grass;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I 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.'|"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, |Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"and I 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, and as the street, to those who walk over.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 51 (WEB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 51](https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/51)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/51 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}