1Hear me, those who are running into righteousness and are seeking LORD JEHOVAH. Gaze to the mountain from which you were cut, and to the pit from which you were hewn

2Gaze to Abraham your Father and to Sara who conceived you, for he was alone and I called him and I blessed him and I increased him

3Because LORD JEHOVAH builds Zion and builds all her deserted places and makes her wilderness as Eden, and her plain as the Paradise of LORD JEHOVAH. Dancing and rejoicing will be heard within her; thanksgiving and the sound of singing

4Hear me, nations, and pay attention to me, peoples, because the Law from went out before me, and my judgment is light to the nations

5My righteousness has come near and my salvation has gone out, and by my arms the nations will be judged. The islands shall wait for me and on my arms they shall hope

6Lift up your eyes to Heaven and gaze also beneath in the earth, because Heaven shall pass away as smoke and Earth shall grow old as clothing, and its inhabitants shall be like it, and my salvation shall be to eternity and my righteousness shall not pass away

7Hear me, those knowing righteousness, the people with my law in their heart: “You shall not be afraid of the reproach of man, and you shall not tremble at their insults

8Because like wool and like clothing a moth will eat them, and my righteousness will be to eternity, and my salvation to a generation of generations!

9Wake up! Wake up, and put on strength, oh arm of LORD JEHOVAH, like in the first days and like the generation that is from ancient times, you who have cut off greatly, and you have destroyed The Dragon

10You are this one who dried up the sea and water of the great Abyss, and in the depths of waters you made a road where the redeemed will pass over, the redeemed of LORD JEHOVAH

11And they shall be converted, and they shall enter Zion in glory, and for eternities there will be joy on their heads. They shall obtain sweetness and joy, and miseries and groanings shall flee away!

12I AM THE LIVING GOD comforting you, says LORD JEHOVAH. Who are you that you are afraid of mortal man and of a son of man who dries up like grass?

13And you have forgotten LORD JEHOVAH who made you, who stretched out Heaven, and he has formed the foundations of the Earth, and you have been afraid constantly, every day, from before the anger of the oppressor who was prepared to destroy. Where is the anger of the oppressor who was hurrying to destroy the strong?

14They will not die to destruction, and one shall not lack his bread 15I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God who rebukes the sea and its waves are calm. LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts is his Name! 16For I have put my words in your mouth and in the shadow of my hands I have covered you, in that when I stretched out the Heavens, and I formed the foundations of the Earth, and I said to Zion: "You are my people!”

17Wake up, wake up! Rise up, Jerusalem, for you have drunk from the hand of LORD JEHOVAH the cup of his passion, and you have drunk and you have drained the cup of trembling

18And there is no one who comforts her, of all the children to whom she had given birth, and there is no one who has held her hand and lifted her up, of all the children whom she raised

19Two things are coming to you, for which you will grieve. Upon you will come looting and ruin, and famine and the sword. Who will comfort you?

20Your children are in shock and are lying down at the top of all of the streets as an offering of mourning, and they are full of the anger of LORD JEHOVAH, and the rebuke of your God

21Because of this, hear these things, afflicted ones who are drunk, not from wine

22Thus says your Lord: “LORD JEHOVAH and your God will judge his people. Behold, I have taken from your hands the cup of trembling and the cup of my passion. You shall not continue to take his drink

23And I shall place it in the hand of your afflicters, for they said to your soul, ‘Lie down and we shall go through’, and you have made your people as the ground and like streets for those who pass through”