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Sing, heaven! Rejoice, earth! Break out in song, you mountains! For Adonai is comforting his people, having mercy on his own who have suffered.

Who among you fears Adonai ? Who obeys what his servant says? Even when he walks in the dark, without any light, he will trust in Adonai 's reputation and rely on his God.

The captive will soon be set free; he will not die and go down to Sh'ol; on the contrary, his food supply will be secure.

Awake! Awake! Stand up, Yerushalayim! At Adonai 's hand you drank the cup of his fury; you have drained to the dregs the goblet of drunkenness.

this is what your Lord Adonai says, your God, who defends his people: "Here, I have removed from your hand the cup of drunkenness, the goblet of my fury. You will never drink it again.

Break out into joy! Sing together, you ruins of Yerushalayim! For Adonai has comforted his people, he has redeemed Yerushalayim!

Adonai has bared his holy arm in the sight of every nation, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

For before him he grew up like a young plant, like a root out of dry ground. He was not well-formed or especially handsome; we saw him, but his appearance did not attract us.

But he was wounded because of our crimes, crushed because of our sins; the disciplining that makes us whole fell on him, and by his bruises* we are healed.

We all, like sheep, went astray; we turned, each one, to his own way; yet Adonai laid on him the guilt of all of us.

Though mistreated, he was submissive — he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to be slaughtered, like a sheep silent before its shearers, he did not open his mouth.

After forcible arrest and sentencing, he was taken away; and none of his generation protested his being cut off from the land of the living for the crimes of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves.

He was given a grave among the wicked; in his death he was with a rich man. Although he had done no violence and had said nothing deceptive,

yet it pleased Adonai to crush him with illness, to see if he would present himself as a guilt offering. If he does, he will see his offspring; and he will prolong his days; and at his hand Adonai 's desire will be accomplished.

After this ordeal, he will see satisfaction. "By his knowing [pain and sacrifice], my righteous servant makes many righteous; it is for their sins that he suffers.

For your husband is your Maker, Adonai -Tzva'ot is his name. The Holy One of Isra'el is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of all the earth.

Let the wicked person abandon his way and the evil person his thoughts; let him return to Adonai , and he will have mercy on him; let him return to our God, for he will freely forgive.

A foreigner joining Adonai should not say, " Adonai will separate me from his people"; likewise the eunuch should not say, "I am only a dried-up tree."

"And the foreigners who join themselves to Adonai to serve him, to love the name of Adonai , and to be his workers, all who keep Shabbat and do not profane it, and hold fast to my covenant,

Greedy dogs, never satisfied — such are the shepherds, unable to understand; they all turn to their own way, each one intent on his own gain: