Isaiah 51

²Look to Abraham your father,

³For the LORD has comforted Zion.

⁴“Listen to me, my people;

⁵My righteousness is near.

⁶Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

⁷“Listen to me, you who know righteousness,

⁸For the moth will eat them up like a garment,

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD!

¹⁰Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,

¹¹Those ransomed by the LORD will return,

¹²“I, even I, am he who comforts you.

¹³Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker,

¹⁴The captive exile will speedily be freed.

¹⁵For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea

¹⁶I have put my words in your mouth

¹⁷Awake, awake!

¹⁸There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth;

¹⁹These two things have happened to you—

²⁰Your sons have fainted.

²¹Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,

²²Your Lord GOD,

²³I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,