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Deliverance for Zion

51 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,
    you who seek the Lord!
Look to the rock from which you were cut,
    to the quarry from which you were hewn.
Look to Abraham your father,
    and to Sarah who gave you birth.
For when he was only one person I called him,
    but I made him fruitful[a] and made him many.
For the Lord will have compassion on Zion,
    have compassion on all her ruins.
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
    and her deserts like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
    thanksgiving, and the sound of singing.[b]
        Sorrow and sighing will flee away.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads blessed him; LXX reads blessed him and loved him
  2. Isaiah 51:3 Or music
  3. Isaiah 51:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack this line; cf Isa 51:11