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Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

Who is among you that fears Yahweh, that obeys the voice of his slave? he that walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.

The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.

For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Yahweh of hosts is his name.

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drank at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drank the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Look, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:

Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Just as many were astonished at you, so [is his] anointing more than a man, his appearance and form more than sons of man.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed.

All of us like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.

By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and who considered his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people he was stricken to death.

And they made his grave with the wicked, and his tomb with the rich; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him that was made sick. If his soul makes an offering for sin, [then] he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.

He shall see the light of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous slave justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for their sins.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he shall be called the God of the whole earth.

Look, I have created the smith that blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.