Isaiah 51:1-3
Remember Your covenant origin and trust God’s restoring comfort.
1 “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Remember your covenant origin and trust God’s restoring comfort.
To encourage the righteous remnant by recalling their covenant origins and promising restoration like Eden.
Addressing a people in exile or post-destruction conditions, the passage calls them to remember their humble beginnings and trust God's power to restore them.
The LORD Comforts Zion and Calls His People to Awake
The LORD comforts Zion by grounding her future restoration in his covenant faithfulness, eternal salvation, sovereign power, and removal of wrath from his afflicted people.