Isaiah 51:12-16

Jehovah again speaks as the comforter of His people. That the passage is a direct answer to the importunate appeal of Isaiah 51:9 f., seems probable, although it cannot be confidently affirmed; it is at all events virtually an answer. A point of contact might be found in Jehovah's assertion of His power over the sea in Isaiah 51:15; but the connexion of ideas in the last three verses is difficult to make out, and the text itself probably confused.