12:1 So remember 1 your Creator in the days of your youth –
before 2 the difficult 3 days come,
and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
51:13 Why do you forget 4 the Lord, who made you,
who stretched out the sky 5
and founded the earth?
Why do you constantly tremble all day long 6
at the anger of the oppressor,
when he makes plans to destroy?
Where is the anger of the oppressor? 7
51:1 “Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, 8
who seek the Lord!
Look at the rock from which you were chiseled,
at the quarry 9 from which you were dug! 10
4:1 So 11 I again considered 12 all the oppression 13 that continually occurs 14 on earth. 15
This is what I saw: 16
The oppressed 17 were in tears, 18 but no one was comforting them;
no one delivers 19 them from the power of their oppressors. 20