Isaiah 51:9-16

Lexham English Bible

⁹ Awake! Awake; put on strength, O arm of Yahweh!
    Awake as in days of long ago,
        the generations of a long time back!
Are you not the one who cut Rahab in pieces,
    the one who pierced the sea-dragon?
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!
¹³ And you have forgotten Yahweh, your maker,
    who stretched out the heavens,
    and founded the earth.
And you tremble continually, all day,
    because of the wrath of the oppressor
    when he takes aim^[g] to destroy.
But^[h] where is the wrath of the oppressor?
¹⁴     The fettered one shall make haste to be freed.
And he shall not die in^[i] the pit,
    and he shall not lack his bread.
¹⁵ For^[j] I am Yahweh, your God,
    who stirs up^[k] the sea, so that^[l] its waves roar;
    Yahweh of hosts is his name.
¹⁶ And I have put my words in your mouth,
    and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
to plant the heavens
    and to found the earth,
        saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”