1Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.[ † ]Romans 9:30-32 2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.[ † ]Romans 4:1-3Hebrews 11:11Genesis 12:1Genesis 24:35Deuteronomy 1:10Ezekiel 33:24 3For 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.[ † ]Isaiah 40:1Isaiah 52:9Psalms 102:13Genesis 13:10Joel 2:3
4Hearken 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.[ † ]Isaiah 2:3Isaiah 42:6 5My 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.[ † ]Isaiah 46:13Psalms 67:4Isaiah 60:9Romans 1:16 6Lift 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.[ † ]Isaiah 40:26Psalms 102:25-26Isaiah 13:13Isaiah 34:4Matthew 24:35Hebrews 1:10-122 Peter 3:10Isaiah 24:19-20Isaiah 50:9Isaiah 45:17
7Hearken 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.[ † ]Psalms 37:31Jeremiah 31:33Hebrews 10:16Isaiah 25:8Isaiah 54:4Matthew 5:11-12Matthew 10:28Acts 5:41
8For 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.[ † ]Isaiah 50:9
9Awake, 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?[ † ]Psalms 44:23Psalms 93:1Psalms 44:1Job 26:12Psalms 89:10Isaiah 30:7Psalms 87:4Psalms 74:13Isaiah 27:1 10Art 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?[ † ]Exodus 14:21Isaiah 63:11-13 11Therefore 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.[ † ]Isaiah 35:10Jeremiah 31:11-12
12I, 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;[ † ]2 Corinthians 1:3Psalms 118:6Isaiah 2:22Isaiah 40:6-7James 1:101 Peter 1:24 13and 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?[ † ]Deuteronomy 6:12Deuteronomy 8:11Isaiah 17:10Jeremiah 2:32Psalms 104:2Job 20:7 14The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.[ † ]Zechariah 9:11 15But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.[ † ]Job 26:12 16And 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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 18:18Isaiah 59:21John 3:34Exodus 33:22Isaiah 49:2Isaiah 65:17
17Awake, 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.[ † ]Isaiah 52:1Job 21:20Isaiah 29:9Jeremiah 25:15Revelation 14:10Revelation 16:19 18There 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. 19These 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?[ † ]Isaiah 47:9Amos 7:2 20Thy 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.[ † ]Lamentations 2:11
21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:[ † ]Lamentations 3:15 22thus 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:[ † ]Isaiah 3:12-13Isaiah 49:25Jeremiah 50:34 23but 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.[ † ]Isaiah 14:2Jeremiah 25:17-26-28Zechariah 12:2