Isaiah 51:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.

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  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart `is' My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,
  • Ps 94:15 : 15 For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
  • Isa 48:12 : 12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I `am' He, I `am' first, and I `am' last;
  • Gen 17:15-17 : 15 And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah `is' her name; 16 and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.' 17 And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'
  • Prov 15:9 : 9 An abomination to Jehovah `is' the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.
  • Rom 9:30-32 : 30 What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith, 31 and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; 32 wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,
  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands, 12 that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
  • Phil 3:13 : 13 brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
  • Isa 55:2-3 : 2 Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,
  • Amos 5:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire `against' the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.
  • Zeph 2:3 : 3 Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.
  • Matt 5:6 : 6 `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
  • Prov 21:21 : 21 Whoso is pursuing righteousness and kindness, Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I `am' Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.
  • Isa 46:3-4 : 3 Hearken unto Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of Israel, Who are borne from the belly, Who are carried from the womb, 4 Even to old age I `am' He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.
  • Ps 24:6 : 6 This `is' a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob! Selah.
  • Ps 105:3-4 : 3 Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth. 4 Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.
  • Isa 51:4 : 4 Attend unto Me, O My people, And, O My nation, unto Me give ear. For a law from Me goeth out, And My judgment to the light, Peoples I do cause to rest.

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