Isaiah 51:4
Listen unto me, my people; and O my nation, give ear unto me; for a law shall proceed from me, and my justice will I establish as a light of the people.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation; these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Psalms 33:12Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he hath chosen for himself as a heritage.
Psalms 78:1“A Maskil of Assaph.” Give ear, O my people, to my instruction: incline thy ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 147:20He hath not done so unto any nation: and [his] ordinances— these they know not. Hallelujah.
Isaiah 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 42:1Behold my servant, whom I will uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my spirit upon him, that he may bring forth justice to the nations.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:2-4
Encouragement to the Disconsolate. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Hearken 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. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 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… Read the whole commentary →