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14 Distress[a] will quickly be set free.
    He won’t die in the Pit,[b]
        nor will he lack food.”

A Promise of Restoration

15 “For I am the Lord your God,
    who churns up the sea, so that its waves roar,
        ‘The Lord of the Heavenly Armies is his name.’
16 I have put my words in your mouth
    and have covered you with the shadow of my hand,
so that I could plant the heavens
    and lay the earth’s foundations,
        to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads The cowering one; LXX lacks Distress
  2. Isaiah 51:14 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife