Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look to the rock from where you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from where you are dig. Treasury of Scripture hearken Isaiah 51:4,7 Listen to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me... Isaiah 46:3,4 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly... Isaiah 48:12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. Isaiah 55:2,3 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? listen diligently to me... ye that follow Isaiah 51:7 Listen to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men... Psalm 94:15 But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Proverbs 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness. Proverbs 21:21 He that follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor. Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you. Romans 9:30-32 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness... Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another. Philippians 3:13 Brothers, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind... 1 Timothy 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: ye that seek Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain... Isaiah 55:6 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near: Psalm 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah. Psalm 105:3,4 Glory you in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD... Amos 5:6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it... Zephaniah 2:3 Seek you the LORD, all you meek of the earth, which have worked his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness... look Genesis 17:15-17 And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be... Ephesians 2:11,12 Why remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh...
Context Salvation for Zion
1Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look to the rock from where you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from where you are dig. 2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 3For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 4Listen to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. 5My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait on me, and on my arm shall they trust. 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 7Listen to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings. 8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. 9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10Are you not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that has made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 12I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? 14The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 15But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. 16And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, You are my people. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence ye were digged.
Douay-Rheims Bible
GIVE ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.
Darby Bible Translation
Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.
King James Bible
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Young's Literal Translation
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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