Consider Abraham your father, and Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him and increased him.

Surely the Lord shall comfort Zion: he shall comfort all her desolations, and he shall make her desert [a]like Eden, and her wilderness like the garden of the Lord: joy and gladness shall be found therein: praise, and the voice of singing.

Hearken ye unto me my people, and give ear unto me, O my people: for a [b]Law shall proceed from me, and I will bring forth my judgment for the light of the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:3 As plentiful as Paradise, Gen. 2:8.
  2. Isaiah 51:4 I will rule and govern my Church by my word and doctrine.

look to Abraham,(A) your father,
    and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
When I called him he was only one man,
    and I blessed him and made him many.(B)
The Lord will surely comfort(C) Zion(D)
    and will look with compassion on all her ruins;(E)
he will make her deserts like Eden,(F)
    her wastelands(G) like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness(H) will be found in her,
    thanksgiving(I) and the sound of singing.

“Listen to me, my people;(J)
    hear me,(K) my nation:
Instruction(L) will go out from me;
    my justice(M) will become a light to the nations.(N)

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