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“Pay attention to me, my people!
    Listen to me, my nation!
For instruction[a] will go out from me,
    and my justice will become a light for the nations.[b]
I will quickly bring my deliverance near;
    my salvation is on the way.
His arm[c] will bring justice to[d] the nations;[e]
    the coastlands will hope for him,[f]
        and they will wait for his arm.[g]

“Lift up your eyes, you[h] heavens
    and look to the earth beneath;
        and see who created these.[i]
Its inhabitants will die just like this;[j]
    but my salvation will be forever,
        and my deliverance will never fail.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:4 Or For the Law
  2. Isaiah 51:4 Lit. peoples
  3. Isaiah 51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab reads My arms; or My arm; MT LXX read My arms
  4. Isaiah 51:5 The verb is pl. in 1QIsaa MT
  5. Isaiah 51:5 Lit. peoples
  6. Isaiah 51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read me
  7. Isaiah 51:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read my arm
  8. Isaiah 51:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read to the
  9. Isaiah 51:6 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read for the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment
  10. Isaiah 51:6 Or like gnats