Isaiah 51:2

Look 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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Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

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1Listen 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

3Yes, Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; 1 her wilderness he made like Eden, and her desert plains beside the Jordan River valley like the garden of Yahweh; 1 joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of singing. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 12:1Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Go from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's household, to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 13:14Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had departed from him, “Look from the place where you are standing to the north, south, east, and west.

Genesis 15:4Then, behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir; but rather the one who will come from your own body will be your heir.”

Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you and I will greatly multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 24:35Yahweh has blessed my master very much and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Joshua 24:3But I took your father from beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan and gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.

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 →

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