23:051:002 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto
Sarah that bare you:
for
I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased
him.
23:051:003 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.
23:051:004 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear
unto 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.
23:051:005 My righteousness is near; my salvation
is gone forth, and mine
arms
shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me,
and
on
mine arm shall they trust.
23:051:006 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look
upon 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.
23:051:007 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness,
the people in
whose
heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither
be ye afraid of their revilings.
23:051:008 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.
23:051:009 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of
the lord; awake, as in
the
ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou
not it
that
hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
23:051:010 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea,
the waters of the
great
deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for
the
ransomed
to pass over?
23:051:011 Therefore the redeemed of the lord
shall return, and come with
singing
unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their
head:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning
shall flee away.
23:051:012 I, even I, am he that comforteth you:
who art thou, that thou
shouldest
be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of
man
which shall be made as grass;
23:051:013 And forgettest the lord thy maker,
that hath stretched forth
the
heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
hast
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?
23:051:014 The captive exile hasteneth that he may
be loosed, and that he
should
not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.


