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“Lift up your eyes, you[a] heavens
    and look to the earth beneath;
        and see who created these.[b]
Its inhabitants will die just like this;[c]
    but my salvation will be forever,
        and my deliverance will never fail.
Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
    you people who have my instruction[d] in their hearts.
Don’t fear the insults of mortals,
    and don’t be dismayed at their hateful words.[e]
For moths will eat them up just like a garment,
    and worms will devour them like wool;
but my deliverance will last[f] forever,
    and my salvation to all generations.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read to the
  2. 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
  3. Isaiah 51:6 Or like gnats
  4. Isaiah 51:7 Or Law
  5. Isaiah 51:7 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; spelling differs from MT; LXX reads contempt
  6. Isaiah 51:8 Lit. be