Isaiah 51 (NET)

Isaiah 51:1¹“Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, who seek the Lord. Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry from which you were dug.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:7Ps 94:15Heb 12:14Ps 105:3-4Rom 14:19Rom 9:30-322 Tim 2:22Amos 5:6Eph 2:11-12Isa 48:12

Isaiah 51:2²Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:24Gal 3:9-14Rom 4:1-5Heb 11:8-12Gen 18:11-13Gen 24:1Isa 29:22Gen 12:1-3Gen 13:14-17Gen 15:1-2

Isaiah 51:3³Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her arid rift valley like the garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 49:13Isa 52:9Joel 2:31 Pet 1:8Gen 13:10Jer 31:12-14Jer 31:25Jer 33:11-13Zeph 3:14-202 Cor 1:3-4

Isaiah 51:4⁴Pay attention to me, my people. Listen to me, my people! For I will issue a decree, I will make my justice a light to the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:91 Cor 9:21Isa 2:3Isa 42:6Isa 49:6Mic 4:2Ps 78:1Exod 19:6Exod 33:13Isa 26:2

Isaiah 51:5⁵I am ready to vindicate, I am ready to deliver, I will establish justice among the nations. The coastlands wait patiently for me; they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:17-18Isa 46:13Isa 42:4Isa 60:9Rom 10:6-102 Cor 5:10Joel 3:12Luke 24:47Mark 16:15Matt 28:18

Isaiah 51:6⁶Look up at the sky. Look at the earth below. For the sky will dissipate like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothes; its residents will die like gnats. But the deliverance I give is permanent; the vindication I provide will not disappear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 24:35Ps 102:25-26Isa 34:4Heb 1:10-12Rev 6:12-14John 3:15-162 Pet 3:10-12John 10:27-29Isa 51:8Isa 13:13

Isaiah 51:7⁷Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law. Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:11Ezek 2:6Ps 37:311 Pet 4:14Acts 5:41Isa 51:11 Pet 4:42 Cor 3:3Jer 1:17Luke 12:4-5

Isaiah 51:8⁸For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:6Isa 50:9Isa 66:24Hos 5:12Job 4:19Luke 1:50Isa 45:17Isa 46:13Job 13:28

Isaiah 51:9⁹Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity. Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 74:13-14Isa 52:1Ps 89:10Isa 27:1Isa 30:7Ezek 29:3Isa 51:17Job 26:12Ps 44:1Isa 59:16-17

Isaiah 51:10¹⁰Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:16Exod 14:21-22Exod 15:13Isa 50:2Isa 63:11-12Isa 42:15Ps 74:13

Isaiah 51:11¹¹Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 25:8Rev 21:4Rev 7:17Isa 35:102 Thess 2:16Isa 61:7Jer 33:11Isa 60:19-202 Cor 4:17-18Rev 22:3

Isaiah 51:12¹²“I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:61 Pet 1:24Isa 2:22John 14:26-272 Cor 1:3-5John 14:18Jas 1:10-11Isa 66:13Isa 51:3Isa 57:15-18

Isaiah 51:13¹³Why do you forget the Lord, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 17:10Isa 40:22Isa 45:12Ps 104:21 Cor 1:20Dan 3:19Isa 44:24Isa 48:13Job 9:81 Cor 15:55

Isaiah 51:14¹⁴The one who suffers will soon be released; he will not die in prison, he will not go hungry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 48:20Zech 9:11Isa 52:2Acts 12:7-8Isa 49:10Ezra 1:5Jer 38:6-13Jer 37:16Lam 3:53-54

Isaiah 51:15¹⁵I am the Lord your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves surge. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is his name!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 31:35Isa 54:5Amos 9:5-6Isa 47:4Isa 51:10Jer 10:16Ps 114:3-5Ps 136:13Ps 74:13Isa 48:2

Isaiah 51:16¹⁶“I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:21Isa 49:2John 17:8Deut 18:18Jer 31:33Isa 66:22Isa 48:13Isa 50:4John 8:38-40Zech 13:9

Isaiah 51:17¹⁷Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger. You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 52:1Rev 14:101 Cor 15:34Isa 51:9Job 21:20Ps 60:3Eph 5:14Ps 11:6Ps 75:8Rev 18:6

Isaiah 51:18¹⁸There was no one to lead her among all the children she bore; there was no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 49:21Ps 88:18Isa 41:13Isa 45:1Mark 8:23Matt 15:14Matt 9:36Ps 142:4Acts 13:11Acts 9:8

Isaiah 51:19¹⁹These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 7:2Isa 47:92 Cor 7:132 Cor 7:6-7Eccl 4:1Ezek 14:21Isa 14:30Isa 22:4Isa 61:2Jer 9:17-21

Isaiah 51:20²⁰Your children faint; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a snare. They are left in a stupor by the Lord ’s anger, by the battle cry of your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 2:11-12Rev 16:9-11Deut 14:5Ezek 12:13Ezek 17:20Ezek 39:19Isa 29:9Isa 49:26Isa 5:25Isa 51:17

Isaiah 51:21²¹So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 29:9Isa 51:17Isa 54:11

Isaiah 51:22²²This is what your Sovereign Lord, even your God who judges his people says: “Look, I have removed from your hand the cup of intoxicating wine, the goblet full of my anger. You will no longer have to drink it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 22:23Isa 51:17Isa 62:8Jer 50:34Isa 49:25Ps 35:11 Sam 25:39Joel 3:2Mic 7:9Ezek 39:29

Isaiah 51:23²³I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 10:24Zech 12:2Isa 49:25-26Jer 25:15-29Prov 11:8Prov 21:18Ps 65:11-12Rev 11:2Rev 13:16-17Rev 17:18