1. “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,you who seek the Lord:look to the rock you were cut from,and to the quarry you were dug from.
2. Look to Abraham your father,and to Sarah who bore you;for when he was but one I called him,and I blessed him,and made him many.
3. For the Lord has comforted Zion.He has comforted all her waste places,and has made her wilderness like Eden,and her desert like the garden of the Lord.Joy and gladness will be found therein,thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4. “Listen to me, my people;and hear me, my nation:for a law will go out from me,and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
5. My righteousness is near.My salvation has gone out,and my arms will judge the peoples.The islands will wait for me,and they will trust my arm.
6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens,and look on the earth beneath;for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,and the earth will wear out like a garment;and its inhabitants will die in the same way:but my salvation will be forever,and my righteousness will not be abolished.
7. “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,the people in whose heart is my law:Don’t fear the reproach of men,and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
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, arm of the Lord!Awake, as in the days of old,the generations of ancient times.Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,who pierced the monster?
10. Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,the waters of the great deep;who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
11. Those ransomed by the Lord will return,and come with singing to Zion;and everlasting joy shall be on their heads.They will obtain gladness and joy.Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.