{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Isaiah",
 "chapter": 51,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?"
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?"
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:"
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over."
  }
 ],
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