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    Isaiah · 23 verses

    Isaiah 51

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    Jerusalem drains a cup of fury to the dregs, though the drunkenness is “not with wine”; then the cup is taken away and handed to tormentors who propose walking over her back. It is a remarkably grim piece of table service.

    The rock, the quarry, and the gardenvv. 1–8

    The address begins with a quarry: the hearers are told to look to the rock from which they were cut, and then to Abraham and Sarah, one person becoming a multitude. Zion’s ruins are promised a transformation into Eden’s garden, complete with joy, thanksgiving, and song. Above it all, the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth wears out like clothing, and its people perish like gnats—cosmic collapse rendered in the language of a wardrobe and a very small nuisance.

    The arm wakes upvv. 9–16

    The LORD’s arm is summoned to wake as in former generations, with Rahab cut apart, the dragon pierced, and the sea dried into a road for the redeemed. The redeemed return to Zion singing, while the frightened captive is promised freedom and bread. The speaker then says that words have been put into a mouth and a hand’s shadow laid over it, in order to establish heavens, found earth, and tell Zion, “You are My people.”

    The cup changes handsvv. 17–23

    Jerusalem is called to wake and rise after drinking the LORD’s cup of fury to its dregs. Her sons lie fainting at the head of every street, and no one is left to guide her or take her hand. Then the cup of staggering is removed from her hand and transferred to the tormentors, who had ordered her to lie down so they could walk over her. The final image is not a banquet but a street, with a back mistaken for pavement.

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    1. Isa 51:1“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.

    2. Isa 51:2Look 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.

    3. Isa 51:3For 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.

    4. Isa 51:4Pay 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. Isa 51:5My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.

    6. Isa 51:6Lift 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.

    7. Isa 51:7Listen 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.

    8. Isa 51:8For 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.”

    9. Isa 51:9Awake, 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. Isa 51:10Was 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?

    11. Isa 51:11So 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.

    12. Isa 51:12“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?

    13. Isa 51:13But 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?

    14. Isa 51:14The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.

    15. Isa 51:15For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

    16. Isa 51:16I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

    17. Isa 51:17Awake, 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.

    18. Isa 51:18Among 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.

    19. Isa 51:19These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

    20. Isa 51:20Your 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. Isa 51:21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

    22. Isa 51:22Thus 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.

    23. Isa 51:23I 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.”

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 438 passages were voted onto 23 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 11Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
    • 11Revelation 21:4‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
    • 6Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
    • 11Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
    • 11Isaiah 35:10So 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.
    • 6Psalms 102:25–26In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
    • 6Isaiah 34:4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
    • 6Hebrews 1:10–12And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
    • 6Revelation 6:12–14And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
    • 6John 3:15–16that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
    • 12Psalms 118:6The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
    • 112 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
    • 62 Peter 3:10–12But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
    • 6John 10:27–29My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
    • 11Isaiah 61:7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
    • 11Jeremiah 33:11the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.

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