Listen to  ¹me, O coastlands,
And hearken, you peoples from afar.
Jehovah has called me from the womb;
From the bowels of my mother He has made mention of my name.

And He has made my mouth like a sharp sword;
He has concealed me in the shadow of His hand,
And He has made me a polished arrow;
He has hidden me in His quiver.

And He said to me, You are My servant,
 ¹Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

But I said, I have  ¹labored in vain;
I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah,
And my recompense with my God.

And now says Jehovah,
Who formed  ¹Me from the  ²womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him,
So that Israel would be gathered to Him;
And I will be glorified in the sight of Jehovah,
And My God will be My strength.

He says, It is too small a thing that You would be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob
And bring back the preserved of Israel;
I will also set You as a  ¹light of the nations
That You may be My  ²salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Thus says Jehovah,
The Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One,
To the  ¹despised One, the One abhorred by the nation,
The One subjected to tyrants,
Kings will see and arise,
And princes will bow down;
Because of Jehovah, who is faithful,
The Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.

Thus says Jehovah,
In an acceptable time I have answered You,
And in a day of salvation I have helped You;
And I will preserve You and give You for a  ¹covenant of the people,
To restore the  ²land, to  ³apportion the desolate inheritances,

To say to the prisoners, Come forth, / To say to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves.

 ¹They will feed along the roads, / And their pasture will be on all the bare heights;

They will not hunger or thirst;
Neither the scorching heat nor the sun will strike them;
For He who has compassion on them will lead them
And will guide them beside the springs of water;

And I will make all My mountains into a road,
And My highways will be raised up.

Indeed, these will come from a distance,
And indeed these will come from the north and the west,
And these from the land of the  ¹Sinim.

Give a ringing shout, O heavens, and exult, O earth,
And break forth into shouting, O mountains;
For Jehovah has comforted His people
And will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

But Zion has said, Jehovah has forsaken me,
And the Lord has forgotten me.

Can a woman forget her nursing child,
That she would not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Even though they may forget,
Yet I will not forget you.

Indeed, I have engraved you upon the palms of My hands;
Your walls are continually before Me.

 ¹Your children make haste;
Your destroyers and those who lay you waste
Will go forth from you.

Lift up your eyes and look around;
All of these gather themselves together and come to you.
As I live, declares Jehovah,
You will put all of them on like an ornament
And gird yourself with them like a bride.

For your waste and desolate places
And your devastated land —
For you will be too constricted now because of its inhabitants,
And those who swallowed you up will be far away.

The children of whom you were bereaved
Will yet say in your ears,
This place is too constricted for me;
Make room for me that I may dwell here.

Then you will say in your heart,
Who has borne these for me,
Since I have been bereaved of children and am barren,
An exile and driven about?
And who brought these up?
Indeed, I was left alone;
From where did these come?

Thus says the Lord Jehovah,
Indeed, I will lift up My hand to the nations,
And unto the peoples I will lift up My banner;
And they will bring your sons in their arms,
And they will carry your daughters on their shoulders.

And kings will be your foster fathers;
And their princesses will be those who nurse you;
They will bow down to you with their faces toward the earth
And lick the dust of your feet;
And you will know that I am Jehovah;
Those who wait on Me will not be ashamed.

Can the booty be taken from the strong man,
Or the lawful captives be delivered?

Surely, thus says Jehovah,
Even the captive may be taken from the strong man,
And the booty may be released from the tyrant;
For I will strive with those who strive with you,
And I will save your children;

And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;
And they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;
Then all flesh will know
That I am Jehovah your Savior
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Thus says Jehovah,
Where is the bill of your mother's divorce
With which I have put her away?
Or to which of My creditors
Have I sold you?
Indeed, for your iniquities you were sold,
And for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Why when I came was there no man?
And when I called why was there no one to answer?
Is My hand so short that it cannot redeem?
Or do I have no power to deliver?
Indeed, at My rebuke I dry up the sea;
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
And die of thirst.

I clothe the heavens with blackness,
And make sackcloth their covering.

The Lord Jehovah has given  ¹me
The tongue of the instructed,
That I should know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens me morning by morning;
He awakens my ear
To hear as an instructed one.

The Lord Jehovah has opened my ear;
And I was not rebellious,
Nor did I turn back.

 ¹I gave my back to those who strike me
And my cheeks to those who pluck out the hair;
I did not hide my face
From humiliation and spitting.

The Lord Jehovah helps me;
Therefore I have not been dishonored;
Therefore I have set my face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be put to shame.

The One who justifies me is near; who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together!
Who is my adversary in judgment?
Let him come near to me.

Indeed, the Lord Jehovah helps me,
Who is the one who condemns me?
Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will consume them.

Who among you fears Jehovah;
Who hears the voice of His servant;
Who walks in darkness
And has no light?
Let him trust in the name of Jehovah,
And rely on his God.

Indeed, all of you who kindle a fire,
Who surround yourselves with firebrands,
Walk into the light of your fire
And into the firebrands which you have lit.
You will have this from My hand:
You will lie down in torment.

Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness,
Who seek after Jehovah,
Look to the  ¹rock from which you were hewn,
And to the excavation of the quarry from which you were dug.

Look to Abraham your father,
And to Sarah who travailed with you;
For I called him when he was one person,
And blessed him and multiplied him.

For Jehovah has comforted Zion;
He has comforted all her waste places,
And made her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of Jehovah.
Gladness and joy will be found in her,
Thanksgiving and the voice of song.

Hearken to Me, O My people;
Give ear to Me, O My nation;
For instruction will go out from Me;
And I will set My judgment as a light for the peoples.

My righteousness is near; My salvation has gone forth;
My arms will judge the peoples;
The coastlands will wait for Me
And place their hope in My arm.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look upon the earth beneath;
For the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
And the earth will wear out like a garment,
And those who dwell there will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not be abolished.

Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
A people in whose heart is My instruction,
Do not fear the reproach of man;
Do not be terrified at their revilings.

For 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 from generation to generation.

Awake, awake! Put on strength,
O  ¹arm of Jehovah;
Awake as in the days of old,
As in the generations of past ages.
Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces,
Who pierced through the dragon?

Was it not You who dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
Who made the depths of the sea into a way
For the redeemed to pass through?

Therefore the  ¹ransomed of Jehovah will return
And will come to Zion with a ringing shout,
And eternal joy will be upon their heads.
They will lay hold on gladness and joy,
And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

I, even I, am He who will comfort you.
Who are you that you are afraid of man who will die,
And of the son of man who will be made like grass,

That you have forgotten Jehovah who made you,
Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth,
That you have been continually afraid every day,
Because of the fury of the oppressor
When he sets himself up to destroy you?
But where is the fury of the oppressor?

The one who is bowed down will soon be released
And will not die in the pit,
Nor will his bread be lacking.

I am Jehovah your God,
Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar,
Jehovah of hosts is His name.

And I have put My words in your mouth,
And I have covered you in the shadow of My hand,
To  ¹plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth,
And to say to Zion, You are My people.

Wake yourself up, wake yourself up;
Stand up, O Jerusalem,
You who have drunk from the hand of Jehovah
The cup of His wrath;
The bowl of the cup of staggering
You have drunk; you have drained it out.

There is no one to guide her
Among all the children whom she has brought forth;
There is no one to take her by the hand
Among all the children she has raised up.

These two things have happened to you;
Who will lament for you?
Desolation and destruction, and famine and sword.
How will I comfort you?

Your sons have fainted;
They lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net,
Full of the wrath of Jehovah,
The rebuke of your God.

Therefore hear this now, O afflicted one,
You who are drunk but not with wine:

Thus says your Lord Jehovah and your God
Who pleads the cause of His people,
Indeed, I have taken from your hand
The cup of staggering;
You will no longer need to drink
The bowl of the cup of My wrath anymore;

And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
Who have said to your soul, Bow down
That we may walk over you;
And you have made your back like the ground,
Like the street for them to cross over.