1 An exhortation after the pattern of Abraham, to trust in Christ
3 By reason of his comfortable promises,
4 Of his righteous salvation
7 And man's mortality
9 Christ by his sanctified arm defends his from the fear of man
17 He bewails the afflictions of Jerusalem
21 And promises deliverance

hearken Isa 51:4,7 46:3,4 48:12 55:2,3

ye that follow Isa 51:7 Ps 94:15 Pr 15:9 21:21 Mt 5:6 6:33 Ro 9:30-32 14:19 Php 3:13 1Ti 6:11 2Ti 2:22 Heb 12:14

ye that seek Isa 45:19 55:6 Ps 24:6 105:3,4 Am 5:6 Zep 2:3

look Ge 17:15-17 Eph 2:11,12

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

unto Abraham Ge 15:1,2 18:11-13 Jos 24:3 Ro 4:1-5,16-24

for Ge 12:1-3 13:14-17 15:4,5 22:17 24:1,35 Ne 9:7,8 Eze 33:24 Ga 3:9-14 Heb 11:8-12

3 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.

the Lord Isa 51:12 12:1 40:1,2 49:13 54:6-8 61:1-3 66:10-14 Ps 85:8 Jer 31:12-14,25 Zep 3:14-20 2Co 1:3,4

all Isa 44:26 49:8 52:9 61:4 Ps 102:13,14 Jer 33:12,13

make Isa 36:1,2,7-10 41:18,19

like the Ge 2:8,9 13:10 Eze 31:8-10 Joe 2:3

joy Jer 33:11 1Pe 1:8 Re 19:1-7

4 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.

O my Isa 26:2 Ex 19:6 33:13 Ps 33:12 106:5 147:20 1Pe 2:9

a law Isa 2:3 Mic 4:2 Ro 8:2-4 1Co 9:21

I will make Isa 42:1-4,6 49:6 Pr 6:23 Mt 12:18-20 Lu 2:32 Joh 16:8-11

5 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.

righteousness Isa 46:13 56:1 De 30:14 Ps 85:9 Mt 3:2 Ro 1:16,17 10:6-10

my salvation Isa 2:2,3 Eze 47:1-5 Mt 28:18 Mr 16:15 Lu 24:47 Ro 10:17,18

mine 1Sa 2:10 Ps 50:4-6 67:4 96:13 98:9 110:6 Joe 3:12 Joh 5:22,23 Ac 17:31 Ro 2:16 2Co 5:10

the isles Isa 42:4 49:1 60:9 Zep 2:11 Ro 1:16 15:9-12

6 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.

lift up Isa 40:26 De 4:19 Ps 8:3,4

the heavens Isa 34:4 50:9 Ps 102:26 Mt 24:35 Heb 1:11,12 2Pe 3:10-12 Re 6:12-14 20:11

my salvation Isa 51:8 45:17 Ps 103:17 Da 9:24 Joh 3:15,16 5:24 10:27-29 2Th 2:16 Heb 5:9 9:12,15

7 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.

hearken Isa 51:1

ye that Php 3:8,10 Tit 2:11,12

in whose Ps 37:31 40:8 Jer 31:33,34 2Co 3:3 Heb 10:16

fear Jer 1:17 Eze 2:6 Mt 5:11 10:28 Lu 6:22 12:4,5 Ac 5:41 1Pe 4:4

8 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.

the moth Isa 50:9 66:24 Job 4:19 13:28 Ho 5:12

my righteousness Isa 51:6 45:17 46:13 Lu 1:50

9 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?

awake Isa 51:17 27:1 Ps 7:6 44:23 59:4 78:65 Hab 2:19

put Isa 52:1 59:17 Ps 21:13 74:13,14 93:1 Re 11:17

o arm Isa 51:5 53:1 59:16 62:8 Lu 1:51 Joh 12:38

as in Jud 6:13 Ne 9:7-15 Ps 44:1

art thou Job 26:12 Ps 87:4 89:10

the dragon Isa 27:1 Ps 74:13,14 Eze 29:3 Hab 3:13 Re 12:9

10 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?

dried Isa 42:15 43:16 50:2 63:11,12 Ex 14:21,22 15:13 Ps 74:13

11 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.

the redeemed Isa 35:10 44:23 48:20 49:13 Jer 30:18,19 31:11,12 33:11 Ac 2:41-47 Re 5:9-13 7:9,10 14:1-4 19:1-7

everlasting Isa 60:19 61:7 2Co 4:17,18 2Th 2:16 Jude 1:24

and sorrow Isa 25:8 60:20 65:19 Re 7:17 21:1,4 22:3

12 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;

I, am he Isa 51:3 43:25 57:15-18 66:13 Joh 14:18,26,27 Ac 9:31 2Co 1:3-5 7:5,6

that thou Isa 51:7,8 2:22 Ps 118:6 146:4 Pr 29:26 Da 3:16-18 Mt 10:28 Lu 12:4,5

man which Isa 40:6 Ps 90:5,6 92:7 103:15,16 Jas 1:10,11 1Pe 1:24

13 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?

forgettest Isa 17:10 De 32:18 Jer 2:32

that hast Isa 40:22 42:5 44:24 45:12 Job 9:8 37:18 Ps 102:25,26 104:2 Jer 10:11,12 51:15 Heb 1:9-12

feared Isa 8:12,13 57:11 Heb 11:15

were ready. or, made himself ready Isa 10:29-32 Ex 14:10-13 15:9,10 Es 5:14 Da 3:15,19 Re 20:9

where is Isa 10:33,34 14:16,17 16:4 33:18,19 37:36-38 Ex 14:13 Es 7:10 Job 20:5-9 Ps 9:6,7 37:35,36 76:10 Da 4:32,33 Mt 2:16-20 Ac 12:23 1Co 1:20 15:55 Re 19:20

14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

captive Isa 48:20 52:2 Ezr 1:5 Ac 12:7,8

die Jer 37:16 38:6-13 La 3:53,54 Zec 9:11

15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.

that divided Isa 51:10 Ne 9:11 Job 26:12 Ps 74:13 114:3-6 136:13 Jer 31:35

am 9:5,6
the Lord Isa 47:4 48:2 54:5 Jer 10:16

16 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.

I have put Isa 50:4 59:21 De 18:18 Joh 3:34 8:38-40 17:8 Re 1:1

I have covered Isa 49:2 De 33:27

plant Isa 45:18 60:21 61:3 65:17 66:22 Ps 92:13 2Pe 3:13

and lay Isa 48:13 49:8 Ps 75:3

thou art Isa 60:14,15 Jer 31:33 32:38 Zec 8:8 13:9 Heb 8:10

17 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.

awake Isa 51:9 52:1 60:1,2 Jud 5:12 1Co 15:34 Eph 5:14

which hast De 28:28,34 Job 21:20 Ps 11:6 60:3 75:8 Jer 25:15-17,27 Eze 23:31-34 Zec 12:2 Re 14:10 18:6

18 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.

none Isa 3:4-8 49:21 Ps 88:18 142:4 Mt 9:36 15:14

that taketh Isa 41:13 45:1 Job 8:20 Jer 31:32 Mr 8:23 Ac 9:8 13:11 Heb 8:9

19 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?

two things Isa 47:9 Eze 14:21

are come. Heb. happened. who shall Job 2:11 Ps 69:20 Jer 9:17-21 La 1:9,12,17 Am 7:2

destruction. Heb. breaking, by whom Isa 22:4 61:2 Job 42:11 Ec 4:1 La 1:16 Am 7:2 2Co 7:6,7,13 2Th 2:16,17

20 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.

sons Isa 40:30 Jer 14:18 La 1:15,19 2:11,12 4:2 5:13

a wild Isa 8:21 Eze 12:13 17:20 Re 16:9-11

full Isa 51:17,21 9:19-21 Ps 88:15,16 La 3:15,16 Re 14:10

but Isa 29:9 49:26 Eze 39:19

21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

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22 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:

pleadeth 1Sa 25:39 Ps 35:1 Pr 22:23 Jer 50:34 51:36 Joe 3:2 Mic 7:9

I Have Isa 51:17 54:7-9 62:8 Eze 39:29

23 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.

I will Isa 49:25,26 Pr 11:8 21:18 Jer 25:17-29 Zec 12:2 Re 17:6-8,18

bow Jos 10:24 Ps 65:11,12 Re 11:2 13:16,17