Isaiah 51 Galatians

13 Isaiah 51:1-2
¹Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahvah; look to the mountain from which you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
²Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who conceived you; for he was alone, and I called him and blessed him and multiplied him.

13 Isaiah 51:3-23
³For Yahvah will build Zion; he will build all her waste places; he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahvah; joy and gladness will be heard in the middle of her, thanksgiving and the voice of singing.

⁴Listen to me, people; and give ear to me, nations; for a law will go forth from me, and my justice is a light to the Gentiles.
⁵My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth and my arms will judge the peoples; the islands will wait for me and on my arm they will trust.
⁶Lift up your eyes to the skies, and also look on the land beneath; for the skies will vanish away like smoke, and the land will wear out like a garment, and they who live in it will perish in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not pass away.

⁷Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the disgrace of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.
⁸For the moth will eat them up like wool and like a garment; but my righteousness will be forever and my salvation from generation to generation.

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahvah; awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of old. Surely it was you who decreed a severe sentence that slayed the dragon.
¹⁰It was you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over.
¹¹Therefore the redeemed of Yahvah will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads; they will obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

¹²I, even I, am he that comforts you says Yahvah; who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that will die, and of the son of man that dries up like grass;
¹³and you have forgotten Yahvah your Maker, who stretched forth the skies and laid the foundations of the land; and have been afraid continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, who was ready to destroy? And now where is the fury of the oppressor?
¹⁴The oppressor hurried to destroy the mighty ones, but they will not die nor be destroyed, nor will their bread fail.
¹⁵For I am Yahvah your God who rebukes the sea, and its waves are calm; Yahvah of hosts is his name.
¹⁶And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, because I stretched forth the skies and laid the foundations of the land and said to Zion, You are my people.

¹⁷Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, because you have drunk at the hand of Yahvah the cup of his fury; you have drunk to the dregs of the cup of trembling, and drained it.
¹⁸There is no one to comfort her among all the sons whom she has borne; nor is there any of all the sons that she has brought up that takes her by the hand.
¹⁹These 2 things are come to you; who will be sorry for you? You will have plunder, destruction, famine, and sword; who will comfort you?
²⁰Your sons have fainted, they lie at every street corner, they are faded like a wilted beet; they are full of the fury of Yahvah, the rebuke of your God.

²¹Now hear this, afflicted and drunk, but not with wine;
²²your Master Yahvah, and your God, who pleads the cause of his people says: Look, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, and you will not drink from the cup of my fury any longer;
²³but I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may go over you; and you have made your people like the ground and like the street to those who passed by.