The Koine Bible

Hear me, you who pursue righteousness and seek the Lord; look to the solid rock from which you were hewn and to the pit of the cistern which you dug

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you in pain, because he was one, and I called him and blessed him and loved him and multiplied him.

And now I will comfort you, Zion, and I have comforted all her desolations, and I will make her desolations like the paradise of the Lord, joy and gladness; in her they will find thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

Hear me, hear, my people, and you kings, give ear to me; for law will go out from me, and my judgment to a light of nations.

My righteousness draws near quickly, and my salvation will go out as light, and the nations will hope in my arm; the islands will wait for me, and they will hope in my arm

Lift up your eyes to the heaven and look into the earth below, for the heaven has been made firm like smoke, and the earth will grow old like a garment, and those who dwell on the earth will die like these; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will by no means fail.

Hear me, you who know judgment, my people, in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, and do not be overcome by their contempt.

For as a garment will be eaten by time, and as wool will be eaten by a moth, so my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for generations of generations

Awake, awake, Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as in the beginning of days, as the generation of eternity. Are you not it?

who made the sea a desolation, the water of the abyss a multitude, who put the depths of the sea as a way of passage for those being delivered

And the ransomed by the Lord shall return and shall come to Zion with gladness and with everlasting rejoicing, for joy and praise and gladness shall seize them; pain and sorrow and groaning have fled away.

I am, I am the one who comforts you. Know whom you were afraid of, fearing from a mortal man and from a son of man, who dried up like grass.

And you forgot God who made you, who made the heaven and founded the earth, and you were always fearing all the days the face of the wrath of the one afflicting you; for in what manner he planned to take you away, and now where is the wrath of the one afflicting you?

For in your being saved he will not stand still nor delay.

For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves resound; the Lord of hosts is my name.

I will put my words into your mouth, and under the shadow of my hand I will shelter you, in which I set the heaven and founded the earth, and Zion will say, You are my people.

Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk the cup of wrath from the hand of the Lord; for you drank the cup of falling, the chalice of wrath, and you emptied it out.

and there was none who was comforting you, from all your children whom you bore, and there was none who was taking hold of your hand, nor from all your sons whom you raised up

These two things have come upon you; who will be grieved with you? Desolation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

Your sons, those in perplexity, those sleeping at the head of every street, like a half-boiled beet, full of the anger of the Lord, faint because of the Lord your God

Therefore hear, O humbled one and drunken one, not from wine

Thus says the Lord God, who judges his people: behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of ruin, the bowl of wrath; and you shall not continue to drink it any more.

And I will put it into the hands of those who wronged you and those who humbled you, who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you laid your back level with the ground, outside for those who were passing by.