1“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. (赛51:7)2Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him. (结33:24)3For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. (创2:8; 创13:10; 赛35:10; 赛40:1; 赛52:9; 结28:13; 结31:9; 珥2:3)4“Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law[1] will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples. (诗78:1; 赛2:3)5My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait. (赛11:11; 赛46:13)6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner;[2] but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed. (诗102:26; 诗102:27; 赛40:26; 太24:25; 彼后3:10; 启21:1)7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings. (诗37:31; 赛41:14; 赛51:1; 太10:28)8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.” (赛50:9; 赛51:6)9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon? (诗44:1; 诗74:13; 诗93:1; 赛27:1; 赛30:7; 赛40:10; 赛51:17; 赛52:1; 赛52:10; 赛53:1; 结29:3; 路1:51)10Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? (出14:21; 诗106:9; 赛43:16)11And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (赛35:10)12“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, (诗118:6; 赛40:1; 赛40:6; 赛66:13)13and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor? (赛14:4; 赛40:22; 赛48:13)14He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking. (赛45:13; 亚9:11)15I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name. (耶31:35)16And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing[3] the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’” (赛40:22; 赛48:13; 赛49:2; 赛50:4; 赛59:21)17Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering. (伯21:20; 诗60:3; 赛51:9; 赛52:1; 耶25:15; 亚12:2; 太20:22; 太26:39; 太26:42; 可10:38; 可14:36; 路22:42; 约18:11)18There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up. (诗74:9; 耶5:31)19These two things have happened to you— who will console you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?[4] (赛47:9)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. (申14:5; 诗141:10; 哀2:11)21Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine: (赛54:11)22Thus says your Lord, the Lord, your God who pleads the cause of his people: “Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more; (赛49:25; 赛51:17; 耶50:34)23and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.” (赛47:6; 赛52:2; 耶25:17; 耶25:26; 耶25:28)