2look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many.


In Context

1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord : Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

2 look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many.

3 The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord . Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

4 "Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: The law will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.

Isaiah 51:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

51:2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

51:2Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

51:2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for I called him when he was alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

51:2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

51:2Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah — she bringeth you forth, For — one — I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.