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13 As a result, you have forgotten the Lord who made you,
    who stretched out the heavens
and laid the earth’s foundations,
    and you live in constant fear every day
because of the oppressor’s fury,
    since he’s ready to destroy.
        Now where is the[a] oppressor’s fury?
14 Distress[b] will quickly be set free.
    He won’t die in the Pit,[c]
        nor will he lack food.”

A Promise of Restoration

15 “For I am the Lord your God,
    who churns up the sea, so that its waves roar,
        ‘The Lord of the Heavenly Armies is his name.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:13 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa omitted oppressor’s…the then inserted the missing lines at the top of column 43
  2. Isaiah 51:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads The cowering one; LXX lacks Distress
  3. Isaiah 51:14 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife