3 For the Lord shall 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 shall be found in it,thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 Listen to Me, O My people;and give ear to Me, O My nation:for a law shall proceed from Me,and I will set My justice as a light of the peoples.
5 My righteousness is near,My salvation has gone forth,and My arms shall judge the peoples;the coastlands shall wait for Me,and for My arm they shall expectantly wait.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,and look on the earth beneath.For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,and the earth shall grow old like a garment,and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner;but My salvation shall be forever,and My righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,the people in whose heart is My law;do not fear the reproach of mennor be afraid of their revilings.
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,and the worm shall eat them like wool;but My righteousness shall be foreverand My salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength,O arm of the Lord.Awake as in the ancient days,in the generations of old.Was it not You who cut Rahab to piecesand wounded the dragon?