1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah
3 For the
4 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.
5 My righteousness
6 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.
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart
8 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.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the
10 Art
11 Therefore the redeemed of the
12 I,
13 And forgettest the
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the
18 There is
19 These two
20 Thy 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
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.