Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: 1 look at the rock from which you were chiseled and to the quarry from which you were cut. 1

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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.

In Context

2Look at Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you; for when he was a lone individual, 1 I called him. I blessed him and made him many. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:2He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Psalms 24:6Such is the generation of those who seek him, 1 those who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah 1

Psalms 105:3Boast in his holy name; 1 let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. 1

Proverbs 21:21The one who does right and is kind— 1 this person finds life, righteousness, and honor. 1

Isaiah 46:3Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, 1 who have been carried by me from before your birth, carried from the womb. 1

Isaiah 48:12Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: 1 I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 1

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 →

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