{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "isaiah", "chapter": 51 }, "data": { "n": 51, "bookSlug": "isaiah", "bookCode": "ISA", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "ISA-51:1", "verseRef": "Isa.51.1", "text": "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence ye were digged." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "ISA-51:2", "verseRef": "Isa.51.2", "text": "Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "ISA-51:3", "verseRef": "Isa.51.3", "text": "For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "ISA-51:4", "verseRef": "Isa.51.4", "text": "Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "ISA-51:5", "verseRef": "Isa.51.5", "text": "My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "ISA-51:6", "verseRef": "Isa.51.6", "text": "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." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "ISA-51:7", "verseRef": "Isa.51.7", "text": "Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "ISA-51:8", "verseRef": "Isa.51.8", "text": "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 unto all generations." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "ISA-51:9", "verseRef": "Isa.51.9", "text": "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "ISA-51:10", "verseRef": "Isa.51.10", "text": "Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "ISA-51:11", "verseRef": "Isa.51.11", "text": "And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "ISA-51:12", "verseRef": "Isa.51.12", "text": "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "ISA-51:13", "verseRef": "Isa.51.13", "text": "and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "ISA-51:14", "verseRef": "Isa.51.14", "text": "The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "ISA-51:15", "verseRef": "Isa.51.15", "text": "For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "ISA-51:16", "verseRef": "Isa.51.16", "text": "And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "ISA-51:17", "verseRef": "Isa.51.17", "text": "Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "ISA-51:18", "verseRef": "Isa.51.18", "text": "There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "ISA-51:19", "verseRef": "Isa.51.19", "text": "These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "ISA-51:20", "verseRef": "Isa.51.20", "text": "Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "ISA-51:21", "verseRef": "Isa.51.21", "text": "Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "ISA-51:22", "verseRef": "Isa.51.22", "text": "Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again:" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "ISA-51:23", "verseRef": "Isa.51.23", "text": "and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/51", "book": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }