Isaiah 51

Isaiah 51
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The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book	Book of Isaiah
Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Bible part	23
Category	Nevi'im

Isaiah 51 is the fifty-first chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.^[1][2] This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.^[3][4] This chapter contains a consolation from the Lord to the people of Israel.

Text

• The original text is written in Hebrew language.
• This chapter is divided into 23 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

• Masoretic Text (10th century)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)^[5][6]
  • 1QIsa^a: complete^[5]
  • 1QIsa^b: extant: verses 1-11^[5]
  • 4QIsa^b (4Q56): extant: verses 14-16^[5]
  • 4QIsa^c (4Q57): extant: verses 1-16^[5]

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

• Septuagint (3rd century BC)
• Theodotion version (~AD 180)

Verse 6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

and look upon 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.^[7]

A part of this verse is referred to by Jesus Christ as recorded in Matthew 24:35:

"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."^[8]

Structure

This chapter can be grouped:

• Isaiah 51:1-16 = The Lord Comforts Zion
• Isaiah 51:17-23 = God’s Fury Removed

See also

• Abraham
• Christian messianic prophecies
• Christianity and Judaism
• Crossing the Red Sea
• Eden
• Jerusalem
• Jewish messianism
• Messianic prophecies of Jesus
• Sarah
• Zion
• Related Bible parts: Exodus 14, Isaiah 2, Isaiah 42, Matthew 24

Notes and references

1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
3. J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
4. Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
5. Dead sea scrolls - Isaiah
6. Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Toy (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
7. Isaiah 51:6
8. Matthew 24:35

External links

Jewish

• Isaiah 51:Original Hebrew with Parallel English

Christian

• Isaiah 51 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate