Isaiah 40:5

New International Version

⁵And the glory^(A) of the Lord will be revealed,
and all people will see it together.^(B)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”^(C)

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Isaiah 40:5 in all English translations

Isaiah 49:14-26

New International Version

¹⁴But Zion^(A) said, “The Lord has forsaken^(B) me,
the Lord has forgotten me.”

¹⁵“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
    and have no compassion on the child^(C) she has borne?
Though she may forget,
    I will not forget you!^(D)
¹⁶See, I have engraved^(E) you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls^(F) are ever before me.
¹⁷Your children hasten back,
    and those who laid you waste^(G) depart from you.
¹⁸Lift up your eyes and look around;
    all your children gather^(H) and come to you.
As surely as I live,^(I)” declares the Lord,
    “you will wear^(J) them all as ornaments;
    you will put them on, like a bride.

¹⁹“Though you were ruined and made desolate^(K)
    and your land laid waste,^(L)
now you will be too small for your people,^(M)
    and those who devoured^(N) you will be far away.
²⁰The children born during your bereavement
    will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
    give us more space to live in.’^(O)
²¹Then you will say in your heart,
    ‘Who bore me these?^(P)
I was bereaved^(Q) and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.^(R)
    Who brought these^(S) up?
I was left^(T) all alone,^(U)
    but these—where have they come from?’”

²²This is what the Sovereign Lord^(V) says:

“See, I will beckon to the nations,
    I will lift up my banner^(W) to the peoples;
they will bring^(X) your sons in their arms
    and carry your daughters on their hips.^(Y)
²³Kings^(Z) will be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.^(AA)
They will bow down^(AB) before you with their faces to the ground;
    they will lick the dust^(AC) at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;^(AD)
    those who hope^(AE) in me will not be disappointed.^(AF)”

²⁴Can plunder be taken from warriors,^(AG)
or captives be rescued from the fierce^[a]?

²⁵But this is what the Lord says:

“Yes, captives^(AH) will be taken from warriors,^(AI)
    and plunder retrieved from the fierce;^(AJ)
I will contend with those who contend with you,^(AK)
    and your children I will save.^(AL)
²⁶I will make your oppressors^(AM) eat^(AN) their own flesh;
    they will be drunk on their own blood,^(AO) as with wine.
Then all mankind will know^(AP)
    that I, the Lord, am your Savior,^(AQ)
    your Redeemer,^(AR) the Mighty One of Jacob.^(AS)”

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Footnotes

Isaiah 49:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous

Isaiah 51:17-23

New International Version

The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath

¹⁷Awake, awake!^(A)
    Rise up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
    the cup^(B) of his wrath,^(C)
you who have drained to its dregs^(D)
    the goblet that makes people stagger.^(E)
¹⁸Among all the children^(F) she bore
    there was none to guide her;^(G)
among all the children she reared
    there was none to take her by the hand.^(H)
¹⁹These double calamities^(I) have come upon you—
    who can comfort you?^(J)—
ruin and destruction,^(K) famine^(L) and sword^(M)—
    who can^[a] console you?
²⁰Your children have fainted;
    they lie at every street corner,^(N)
    like antelope caught in a net.^(O)
They are filled with the wrath^(P) of the Lord,
    with the rebuke^(Q) of your God.

²¹Therefore hear this, you afflicted^(R) one,
    made drunk,^(S) but not with wine.
²²This is what your Sovereign Lord says,
    your God, who defends^(T) his people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
    the cup^(U) that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
    you will never drink again.
²³I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,^(V)
    who said to you,
    ‘Fall prostrate^(W) that we may walk^(X) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
    like a street to be walked on.”^(Y)