Isaiah 52
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1Wake up, wake up, Zion! Be strong! Put on your best clothes, Jerusalem, the holy city. Heathen foreigners won't ever enter you again. 2Shake yourself free from the dust and get up. Sit on your throne, Jerusalem. Throw off the chains around your neck, captive daughter of Zion. 3This is what the Lord says: You were sold for nothing, and you will be bought back without money.
4This is what the Lord God says: First of all, my people went to live in Egypt, then Assyria conquered them for no reason. 5What do I have to do now? asks the Lord. My people have been taken into captivity for no reason. Those who rule them mock them, and I'm treated with contempt that whole time, says the Lord. 6So I'm going to make sure my people know me; at that time they will know that I am the one who means what he says. Yes, it's me!
7What a wonderful sight in the mountains is the one running to bring good news, announcing peace and good news, announcing salvation, telling Zion, “Your God reigns!” 8The city watchmen shout loudly and sing for joy together; they all see the Lord returning to Jerusalem. 9Let Jerusalem's ruins all sing for joy for the Lord has come to care for his people; he has set Jerusalem free. 10The Lord has demonstrated his holy power to all the nations; the whole world will see our God's salvation.
11Leave, leave, get out of there! Don't bring anything pagan;#52:11. “Pagan”: literally “unclean,” likely referring to anything associated with idol worship. come out and leave it all behind. Those of you who carry the Lord's sacred articles are to purify yourselves. 12But don't leave in a hurry, don't be in a rush as if you're running away, for the Lord will go ahead of you, and he will also protect those at the back.
13Look: my servant will act wisely; he will be praised highly, he will be elevated in position, and seen as someone people look up to. 14But many were horrified by him,#52:14. “Him”: This is the reading of the Syriac and the Targums. Hebrew has “you.” so disfigured in appearance, no longer looking like a man, so unlike anyone human. 15He will surprise many nations, and kings will keep quiet because of him—for they'll see what they haven't been told, and they'll understand what they hadn't heard.
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Isaiah 52
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Isaiah 52
1¶ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into thee.
2Shake thyself from the dust; arise and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nothing; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4For thus has the Lord GOD said, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian captured them without cause.
5Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nothing? And those among my people that take rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name is continually blasphemed every day.
6Therefore my people shall know my name for this reason in that day: for even I that speak, behold, I shall be present.
7¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes saving health, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigns!
8The voice of thy watchmen! They shall lift up the voice; together they shall rejoice: for they shall see eye to eye, how the Lord shall return to bring again Zion.
9Sing praises, rejoice together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10The Lord has made bare the arm of his holiness before the eyes of all the Gentiles; and all the ends of the earth shall see the saving health of our God.
11Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from there, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
12For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will gather you together.
13¶ Behold, my slave shall be prospered; he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14As many rejected thee, in such manner was his likeness and his beauty, disfigured from the sons of men:
15But he shall sprinkle many Gentiles; the kings shall shut their mouths over him: for that which had not been told them they shall see; and that which they had not heard they shall understand.
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