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10 Are you not the one who dried up the sea,
    the waters of the great deep,
the one who made[a] the depths of the sea a way
    for those who are redeemed to cross over?
11 So[b] the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return,
    and they shall come to Zion with singing,
        and everlasting joy shall be on their heads.[c]
Joy and gladness shall appear;[d]
    sorrow and sighing shall flee away!
12 “I, I am he who comforts you;
    who are you that[e] you are afraid of man? He dies!
    And of the son of humankind? He is sacrificed[f] as grass!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:10 Literally “placed”
  2. Isaiah 51:11 Or “And”
  3. Isaiah 51:11 Hebrew “head”
  4. Isaiah 51:11 Literally “reach”
  5. Isaiah 51:12 Or “and”
  6. Isaiah 51:12 Literally “given”