11HERE! O ALL OF YOU [WHO] KINDLE <OF> A FIRE [WHO] GIRD ON <OF> FIREBRANDS WALK BY [THE] LIGHT OF FIRE YOUR AND WITH [THE] FIREBRANDS [WHICH] YOU HAVE KINDLED FROM HAND MY IT WILL BELONG THIS TO YOU TO PAIN YOU WILL LIE DOWN! 11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.
1LISTEN TO ME O [THOSE WHO] PURSUE <OF> RIGHTEOUSNESS [THOSE WHO] SEEK <OF> YAHWEH LOOK TO [THE] ROCK [WHICH] YOU WERE DUG AND TO [THE] EXCAVATION OF [THE] PIT [WHICH] YOU WERE DUG OUT Salvation for Zion 1“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
2LOOK TO ABRAHAM ANCESTOR YOUR AND TO SARAH [WHO] SHE GAVE BIRTH TO YOU IF ONE [PERSON] I CALLED HIM AND I BLESSED HIM AND I MULTIPLIED HIM 2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
3FOR HE WILL COMFORT YAHWEH ZION HE WILL COMFORT ALL WASTE PLACES ITS AND HE MADE WILDERNESS ITS LIKE EDEN AND DESERT PLAIN ITS LIKE [THE] GARDEN OF YAHWEH JOY AND GLADNESS IT WILL BE FOUND IN IT THANKSGIVING AND [THE] SOUND OF MUSIC 3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
4PAY ATTENTION TO ME O PEOPLE MY AND O NATION MY TO ME GIVE EAR FOR LAW FROM WITH <THE> ME IT WILL GO OUT AND JUSTICE MY <INTO> A LIGHT OF PEOPLES I WILL MAKE SUDDENLY 4Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
5[IS] NEAR RIGHTEOUSNESS MY IT HAS GONE OUT SALVATION MY AND ARMS MY PEOPLES THEY WILL JUDGE TO ME ISLANDS THEY WILL WAIT AND TO ARM MY THEY WILL HOPE! 5My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands*NoteCloseOr coastlands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.
6LIFT UP TO THE HEAVENS EYES YOUR AND LOOK TO THE EARTH <FROM> BENEATH FOR [THE] HEAVENS LIKE <THE> SMOKE THEY WILL BE DISPERSED AND THE EARTH LIKE <THE> GARMENT IT WILL WEAR OUT AND INHABITANTS ITS LIKE GNAT[S] THEY WILL DIE! AND SALVATION MY FOR EVER IT WILL BE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS MY NOT IT WILL BE BROKEN 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
7LISTEN TO ME O [THOSE WHO] KNOW <OF> RIGHTEOUSNESS A PEOPLE [WHICH] LAW MY [IS] IN HEART THEIR MAY NOT YOU FEAR [THE] REPROACH OF HUMANKIND AND FROM REVILING WORDS THEIR MAY NOT YOU BE DISMAYED 7Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
8FOR LIKE <THE> GARMENT IT WILL EAT THEM MOTH AND LIKE <THE> WOOL IT WILL EAT THEM CLOTHES-MOTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS MY FOR EVER IT WILL BE AND SALVATION MY TO A GENERATION OF GENERATIONS 8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations
9AWAKE AWAKE PUT ON STRENGTH O ARM OF YAHWEH AWAKE LIKE DAYS OF ANTIQUITY GENERATIONS OF ANTIQUITI<ES> ¿ NOT [ARE] YOU SHE WHO CUT IN PIECES RAHAB [WHO] PIERCED [THE] SEA MONSTER 9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
10¿ NOT [ARE] YOU SHE WHO DRIED UP [THE] SEA [THE] WATER OF [THE] DEEP GREAT WHO <SHE> MADE [THE] DEPTHS OF [THE] SEA A WAY TO PASS OVER REDEEMED [PEOPLE] 10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
11AND [THE] [PEOPLE] RANSOMED OF YAHWEH THEY WILL RETURN! AND THEY WILL COME ZION WITH A SHOUT OF JOY AND GLADNESS OF PERPETUITY [WILL BE] ON HEAD THEIR JOY AND GLADNESS THEY WILL OVERTAKE [THEM]! THEY WILL FLEE SORROW AND SIGHING 11So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
12I I [AM] HE [WHO] COMFORTS YOU WHO? [ARE] YOU AND YOU HAVE BEEN AFRAID FROM A PERSON [WHO] HE DIES AND FROM A CHILD OF HUMANKIND [WHO] GRASS HE IS MADE 12“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
13AND YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN YAHWEH [WHO] MADE YOU [WHO] STRETCHED OUT [THE] HEAVENS AND [WHO] FOUNDED [THE] EARTH AND YOU HAVE BEEN IN DREAD CONTINUALLY ALL THE DAY OF <THE FACE OF> [THE] ANGER OF THE OPPRESSOR <JUST> WHEN HE HAS PREPARED TO DESTROY AND WHERE? [IS] [THE] ANGER OF THE OPPRESSOR 13But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
14HE WILL HASTEN [ONE WHO] STOOPS TO BE LET LOOSE AND NOT HE WILL DIE TO THE PIT AND NOT HE WILL LACK FOOD HIS 14The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
15AND I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR [WHO] STIRS UP THE SEA AND THEY ROARED WAVES ITS [IS] YAHWEH OF HOSTS NAME HIS 15For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of Hosts is His name.
16AND I HAVE PUT WORDS MY IN MOUTH YOUR AND WITH [THE] SHADOW OF HAND MY I HAVE COVERED YOU TO PLANT [THE] HEAVENS AND TO FOUND [THE] EARTH AND TO SAY TO ZION [ARE] PEOPLE MY YOU 16I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish*NoteCloseOr to plant the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
17ROUSE YOURSELF ROUSE YOURSELF ARISE O JERUSALEM WHO YOU HAVE DRUNK FROM [THE] HAND OF YAHWEH <OBJ.> [THE] CUP OF ANGER HIS <OBJ.> [THE] BOWL OF [THE] CUP OF <THE> STAGGERING YOU HAVE DRUNK YOU HAVE DRAINED God’s Fury Removed 17Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.
18THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] LEADS <TO> HER OF ALL [THE] CHILDREN [WHOM] SHE HAS BORNE AND THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] TAKES HOLD ON HAND HER FROM ALL [THE] CHILDREN [WHOM] SHE HAS BROUGHT UP 18Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.
19TWO [THINGS] THEY [HAVE] HAPPENED TO YOU WHO? DOES HE SHOW SYMPATHY TO YOU THE DEVASTATION AND THE DESTRUCTION AND THE FAMINE AND THE SWORD WHO? DO I COMFORT YOU 19These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?*NoteCloseDSS, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; MT How can I comfort you?
20CHILDREN YOUR THEY HAVE BECOME FAINT THEY HAVE LAIN DOWN AT [THE] HEAD OF ALL [THE] STREETS LIKE AN ANTELOPE OF A NET WHICH [ARE] FULL [THE] ANGER OF YAHWEH [THE] REBUKE OF GOD YOUR 20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
21<TO> THEREFORE HEAR PLEASE THIS O AFFLICTED [ONE] AND O DRUNKEN [ONE] AND NOT FROM WINE 21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
22THUS HE SAYS LORD<S> YOUR YAHWEH AND GOD YOUR [WHO] HE CONDUCTS A CASE FOR PEOPLE HIS HERE! I HAVE TAKEN FROM HAND YOUR <OBJ.> [THE] CUP OF <THE> STAGGERING <OBJ.> [THE] BOWL OF [THE] CUP OF ANGER MY NOT YOU WILL REPEAT TO DRINK IT AGAIN 22Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
23AND I WILL PUT IT IN [THE] HAND OF [THOSE WHO] TORMENT YOU WHO THEY SAID TO SELF YOUR LIE DOWN SO LET US PASS OVER [YOU] AND YOU MADE LIKE THE GROUND BACK YOUR AND LIKE THE STREET FOR <THE> [THOSE WHO] PASS OVER 23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”