Isaiah 51

In this life we will sow into truth or we will sow into darkness. Jesus is truth and He lights the way. We cannot fear the reprisals of men or allow fear to subdue us into complacency. It doesn't matter what man thinks it matters what God thinks. We were bought by His blood and in Him is all power. We must take a stand for good and follow God's ways and He will protect us from all evil. Trust in His love for you. He has the whole world in His hands!!

51 "Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness,

You who seek the Lord:

Look to the rock from which you were hewn,

And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.

2 Look to Abraham your father,

And to Sarah who bore you;

For I called him alone,

And blessed him and increased him."

3 For the Lord will comfort Zion,

He will comfort all her waste places;

He will make her wilderness like Eden,

And her desert like the garden of the Lord;

Joy and gladness will be found in it,

Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

4 "Listen to Me, My people;

And give ear to Me, O My nation:

For law will proceed from Me,

And I will make My justice rest

As a light of the peoples.

5 My righteousness is near,

My salvation has gone forth,

And My arms will judge the peoples;

The coastlands will wait upon Me,

And on My arm they will trust.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

And look on the earth beneath.

For the heavens will vanish away like smoke,

The earth will grow old like a garment,

And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;

But My salvation will be forever,

And My righteousness will not be abolished.

7 "Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,

You people in whose heart is My law:

Do not fear the reproach of men,

Nor be afraid of their insults.

8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment,

And the worm will eat them like wool;

But My righteousness will be forever,

And My salvation from generation to generation."

9 Awake, awake, put on strength,

O arm of the Lord!

11 So the ransomed of the Lord shall return,

And come to Zion with singing,

With everlasting joy on their heads.

They shall obtain joy and gladness;

Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

12 "I, even I, am He who comforts you.

Who are you that you should be afraid

Of a man who will die,

And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?

15 But I am the Lord your God,

Who divided the sea whose waves roared—

The Lord of hosts is His name.

16 And I have put My words in your mouth;

I have covered you with the shadow of My hand,

That I may plant the heavens,

Lay the foundations of the earth,

And say to Zion, 'You are My people.' "

21 Therefore please hear this, you afflicted,

And drunk but not with wine.

22 Thus says your Lord,

The Lord and your God,

Who pleads the cause of His people:

"See, I have taken out of your hand

The cup of trembling,

The dregs of the cup of My fury;

You shall no longer drink it.

23 But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,

Who have said to you,

'Lie down, that we may walk over you.'

And you have laid your body like the ground,

And as the street, for those who walk over."

The NKJV Study Bible says this: Zion replaced Eden and both were walled-in places of fellowship with God, free from sin, and guarded by cherubim so that only God's people could enter. The old cosmos will vanish away and grow old, and those who dwell in it will die. Only God's people will inherit the new cosmos. In whose heart is My law refers to those who are bound to God by the provisions of the New Covenant. This oracle bases Israel's salvation on the Lord's past mighty acts at creation and the Exodus. It consists of three sections: (1) a call to the Lord to stir up His might as in days of old; (2) the Lord's response, recalling those acts and chiding the people for forgetting Him; and (3) a recounting of His gift of prophecy.