1"Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from.

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Isaiah 51:7, Isaiah 51:7, Psalms 94:15, Psalms 94:15, Romans 14:19

2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

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Ezekiel 33:24, Ezekiel 33:24, Galatians 3:9, Galatians 3:14, Galatians 3:9

3For the Lord has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made 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.

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Isaiah 49:13, Isaiah 49:13, Isaiah 52:9, Isaiah 52:9, Joel 2:3

4"Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.

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1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 2:9, Isaiah 2:3, 1 Corinthians 9:21, Isaiah 2:3

5My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.

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Romans 10:17, Romans 10:18, Isaiah 46:13, Romans 10:17, Romans 10:18

6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

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Matthew 24:35, Matthew 24:35, Psalms 102:25, Psalms 102:26, Psalms 102:25

7"Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults.

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Psalms 37:31, Psalms 37:31, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 5:11, Ezekiel 2:6

8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."

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Isaiah 50:9, Isaiah 51:6, Isaiah 50:9, Isaiah 51:6, Isaiah 66:24

9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the Lord; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

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Psalms 74:13, Psalms 74:14, Psalms 74:13, Psalms 74:14, Isaiah 52:1

10Isn't it 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 pass over?

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Isaiah 43:16, Isaiah 43:16, Exodus 15:13, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 63:11

11The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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Isaiah 25:8, Isaiah 25:8, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 7:17

12"I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

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Psalms 118:6, Psalms 118:6, 1 Peter 1:24, Isaiah 2:22, 1 Peter 1:24

13and have forgotten the Lord your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

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Psalms 104:2, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 17:10, Isaiah 40:22, Psalms 104:2

14The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.

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Isaiah 48:20, Isaiah 48:20, Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:11, Isaiah 52:2

15For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: the Lord of hosts is his name.

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Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:35, Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 54:5, Amos 9:5

16I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, 'You are my people.'"

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Isaiah 59:21, Isaiah 59:21, Isaiah 49:2, Isaiah 49:2, John 17:8

17Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 51:9, Revelation 14:10, Psalms 60:3

18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

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Psalms 88:18, Isaiah 49:21, Psalms 88:18, Isaiah 49:21, Matthew 9:36

19These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

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Isaiah 47:9, Amos 7:2, Isaiah 47:9, Amos 7:2, Job 42:11

20Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

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Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:12, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:12, Jeremiah 14:16

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

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Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 54:11, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 29:9

22Thus says your Lord God, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:

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Proverbs 22:23, Isaiah 49:25, Proverbs 22:23, Isaiah 49:25, Isaiah 62:8

23and 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 laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."

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Joshua 10:24, Joshua 10:24, Zechariah 12:2, Zechariah 12:2, Revelation 11:2