2. Look to Abraham your fatherand to Sarah who bore you;for he was but one when I called him,that I might bless him and multiply him.
3. For the Lord comforts Zion;he comforts all her waste placesand makes her wilderness like Eden,her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her,thanksgiving and the voice of song.
4. “Give attention to me, my people,and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me,and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
5. My righteousness draws near,my salvation has gone out,and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me,and for my arm they wait.
6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens,and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke,the earth will wear out like a garment,and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever,and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
7. “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man,nor be dismayed at their revilings.
8. For the moth will eat them up like a garment,and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever,and my salvation to all generations.”
9. Awake, awake, put on strength,O arm of the Lord;awake, as in days of old,the generations of long ago.Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,who pierced the dragon?
10. Was it not you who dried up the sea,the waters of the great deep,who made the depths of the sea a wayfor the redeemed to pass over?
11. And the ransomed of the Lord shall returnand come to Zion with singing;everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;they shall obtain gladness and joy,and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12. “I, I am he who comforts you;who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,of the son of man who is made like grass,
13. and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavensand laid the foundations of the earth,and you fear continually all the daybecause of the wrath of the oppressor,when he sets himself to destroy?And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
14. He who is bowed down shall speedily be released;he shall not die and go down to the pit,neither shall his bread be lacking.
15. I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of hosts is his name.
16. And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavensand laying the foundations of the earth,and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”