Isaiah 51:1
Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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2 Chronicles 15:2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Psalms 24:6This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.
Psalms 105:3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
Proverbs 21:21He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.
Isaiah 48:12Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:1
This chapter is designed for the comfort and encouragement of those that fear God and keep his commandments, even when they walk in darkness and have no light. Whether it was intended primarily for the support of the captives in Babylon is not certain, probably it was; but comforts thus generally expressed ought not to be so confined. Whenever the church of God is in distress her friends and well-wishers may comfort themselves and one another with these words, I. That God, who raised his church at first out of… Read the whole commentary →