Isaiah 51:1 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Hearken unto me, Ye that pursue righteousness, Ye that seek Yahweh,––Look well unto the rock whence ye were hewn, And unto the quarry whence ye were digged:

¹⁵ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name, Sarai,––but, Sarah, is her name; ¹⁶ And I will bless her, yea moreover will give––from her––to thee, a son,––And I will bless her, and she shall become nations. Kings of peoples, from her, shall arise. ¹⁷ And Abraham fell on his face, and laughed,––and said in his heart, To one a hundred years old, shall a child be born? And shall, even Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?

⁶ This, is the generation of them who inquire of him, who seek thy face, O God of Jacob. [Selah.]

¹⁵ For, unto righteousness, shall the judicial sentence return, Then shall follow it––all the upright in heart.

³ Make your boast in his holy Name, Joyful be the heart of them who are seeking Yahweh. ⁴ Search out Yahweh and his strength, Seek diligently his face at all times.

⁹ An abomination to Yahweh, is the way of the lawless, but, the pursuer of righteousness, he loveth.

²¹ He that pursueth righteousness and lovingkindness, shall find life, righteousness and honour.

¹⁹ Not in secret, have I spoken, In a place of the earth that is dark,––I have not said unto the seed of Jacob, In a waste, seek ye me,––I, am Yahweh, Speaking the thing that is right, Declaring the things that are just.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, Even all the remnant of the house of Israel,––Who have been borne from birth, Who have been carried from nativity: ⁴ Even, unto old age, I, am, the same, And, unto grey hairs, I, will bear the burden,––I, have made, and, I, will carry, Yea, I, will bear the burden and will deliver.

¹² Hearken unto me, O Jacob, And Israel, my called one,––I, am, the Same, I, the first, yea, I, the last:

⁴ Attend unto me, O my people, And, O my nation, unto me, give ear,––For, instruction, from me, shall go forth, And, my justice––for a light of peoples, will I establish:

⁷ Hearken unto me, ye who discern righteousness, The people in whose heart is my law,––Do not fear the reproach of frail men, Nor, at their revilings, be dismayed;

² Wherefore, should ye spend, Money, for that which is, not bread? Or your labour, for that which, satisfieth not? Keep on hearkening unto me, And so eat that which is good, And let your soul, take exquisite delight in fatness: ³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live,––That I may solemnise for you a covenant age–abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well–assured.

⁶ Seek Yahweh, while he may be found,––Call ye upon him, while he is near:

⁶ Seek ye Yahweh, and live,––lest he break forth, like a fire, upon the house of Joseph, and it devour with none to quench it, for Bethel.

³ Seek Yahweh––all ye lowly of the land, who have wrought, what he appointed,––seek righteousness, seek humility, peradventure, ye shall be concealed, in the day of the anger of Yahweh?

⁶ Happy, they who hunger and thirst for righteousness; for, they, shall be filled:

³³ But be seeking first, the kingdom and its righteousness,––and, all these things, shall be added unto you.

³⁰ What, then, shall we say? That, they of the nations, who were not in pursuit of righteousness, have laid hold of righteousness,––a righteousness, however, which is by faith; ³¹ Whereas, Israel, though in pursuit of a law of righteousness, unto a law, have not attained. ³² Wherefore? Because, not by faith but as by works, [have they sought it]: they have stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

¹⁹ Hence, then, the things pertaining to peace, let us pursue, and the things which belong to the upbuilding one of another:

¹¹ Wherefore, keep in remembrance––that, at one time, ye, the nations in flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by the so–called Circumcision in flesh, made by hand, ¹² That ye were, in that season, separate from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and godless in the world;

¹³ Brethren! I, as to myself, reckon that I have, not yet, laid hold; one thing, however,––the things behind, forgetting, and, unto the things before, eagerly reaching out,

¹¹ But, thou, O man of God! from these things, flee! and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

²² But, from the youthful covetings, flee! and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, along with them who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹⁴ Peace, be pursuing, with all, and the obtaining of holiness,––without which no one shall see the Lord: