¹Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were hewn from, and to the hole of the pit you were dug out of.

²Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who writhed to bring you forth; for he was one when I called him, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.

³For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her ruins, and has made her wilderness like Eden and her desert plain like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of melody.

⁴Give attention to me, my people, and my nation; give ear to me; for instruction will go out from me, and my justice I will settle as a light for the peoples.

⁵Near is my righteousness, my deliverance has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.

⁶Lift up your eyes to the skies, and look to the land beneath; for the skies will vanish like smoke, and the land will wear out like a garment, and those who dwell in her will die like gnats; but my deliverance will be forever, and my righteousness will not be shattered.

⁷Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people with my instruction in their heart: do not fear the reproach of men, and do not be dismayed at their revilings.

⁸For like a garment the moth will eat them, and like wool the clothes-moth will eat them; but my righteousness will be forever, and my deliverance for generation after generation.

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Yahweh; awake as in the days of long ago, the generations of old. Was it not you who hewed Rahab in pieces, who pierced the sea monster?

¹⁰Is 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 cross?

¹¹And the ransomed of Yahweh will return and come to Zion with a ringing cry, and gladness forever will be on their heads; joy and gladness will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

¹²I, I am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear a man who dies, and a child of humankind who is made like grass?

¹³And you forgot Yahweh, who made you, who stretched out the skies and founded the land; and you were in dread continually, all the day, before the burning anger of the oppressor, as he prepared to destroy; and where is the burning anger of the oppressor?

¹⁴The one who stoops will hasten to be loosened; he will not die in the pit, and his food will not lack.

¹⁵And I am Yahweh your God, who tosses the sea so that its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name.

¹⁶And I have put my words in your mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I have covered you, to plant the skies and to found the land, and to say to Zion, You are my people.

¹⁷Awake, awake, rise, O Jerusalem, you who drank from the hand of Yahweh the cup of his anger; the bowl, the cup of reeling, you drank, you drained out.

¹⁸There is none to lead her gently among all the children she bore, and there is none to take hold of her hand among all the children she made great.

¹⁹Two things have befallen you; who will grieve with you? Devastation and breaking, and famine and the sword; by whom shall I comfort you?

²⁰Your children have fainted, they lie down at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net, full of the anger of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.

²¹Therefore hear this, please, afflicted one, drunk but not with wine.

²²Thus says your lord Yahweh, and your God who contends for his people: Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of reeling, the bowl, the cup of my anger; you will never drink it again.

²³And I will put it in the hand of those who torment you, who said to your being, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you made your back like the land, and like the street for those who pass over.