Isaiah 52
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Jerusalem Can Celebrate
1 #
Rev 21.2,27. Jerusalem, wake up!
Stand up and be strong.
Holy city of Zion,
dress in your best clothes.
Those foreigners who ruined
your sacred city
won't bother you again.
2Zion, rise from the dirt!
Free yourself from the rope
around your neck.
Suffering Will End
3The Lord says:
My people, you were sold,
but not for money;
now you will be set free,
but not for a payment.
4Long ago you went to Egypt
where you lived
as foreigners.
Then Assyria was cruel to you,
5 #
Ro 2.24. and now another nation#52.5 another nation: Babylonia.
has taken you prisoner
for no reason at all.
Your leaders groan with pain,#52.5 groan with pain: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
and day after day
my own name is cursed.
6My people, you will learn
who I am and who is speaking
because I am here.
A Message of Hope for Jerusalem
7 #
Nh 1.15; Ro 10.15; Eph 6.15. What a beautiful sight!
On the mountains a messenger
announces to Jerusalem,
“Good news! You're saved.
There will be peace.
Your God is now King.”
8Everyone on guard duty,
sing and celebrate!
Look! You can see the Lord
returning to Zion.
9Jerusalem, rise from the ruins!
Join in the singing.
The Lord has given comfort
to his people;
he comes to your rescue.
10The Lord has shown all nations
his mighty strength;
now everyone will see
the saving power of our God.
A Command To Leave Babylon
11 #
2 Co 6.17. Leave the city of Babylon!
Don't touch anything filthy.
Wash yourselves. Be ready
to carry back everything sacred
that belongs to the Lord.
12You won't need to run.
No one is chasing you.
The Lord God of Israel
will lead and protect you
from enemy attacks.
The Suffering Servant
13The Lord says:
My servant will succeed!
He will be given great praise
and the highest honors.
14Many were horrified
at what happened to him.#52.14 him: One ancient translation; Hebrew “you.”
But everyone who saw him
was even more horrified
because he suffered until
he no longer looked human.#52.14 human: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 14.
15 #
Ro 15.21. My servant will make
nations worthy to worship me;#52.15 My … me: Hebrew; one ancient translation “The nations will be amazed at him.”
kings will be silent
as they bow in wonder.#52.15 kings … wonder: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
They will see and think about
things they have never seen
or thought about before.
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 52
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1Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Tsiyon, put on your garments of splendour, O Yerushalayim, the set-apart city! For no more do the uncircumcised and the unclean come into you.
2Shake yourself from the dust, arise, and sit down, O Yerushalayim. Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Tsiyon!
3For thus said יהוה, “You have been sold for naught, and you are redeemed not with silver.”
4For thus said the Master יהוה, “At first My people went down into Mitsrayim to sojourn there, and Ashshur oppressed them without cause.
5“And now, what have I here,” declares יהוה, “that My people are taken away for naught? Those who rule over them make them wail,” declares יהוה, “and My Name is despised#See Psa. 74:10; Psa. 74:18; Exo. 20:7 and Deu. 5:11 all day continually.
6“Therefore My people shall know My Name, in that day, for I am the One who is speaking. See, it is I.”
7How pleasant upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings good news, who proclaims deliverance, who says to Tsiyon, “Your Elohim reigns!”
8The voice of your watchmen! They shall lift up their voices, together they shout for joy, because eye to eye they see the return of יהוה to Tsiyon.
9Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Yerushalayim! For יהוה shall comfort His people, He shall redeem Yerushalayim.
10יהוה shall lay bare His set-apart arm in the eyes of all the nations. And all the ends of the earth shall see the deliverance of our Elohim.
11Turn aside! Turn aside! Come out from there, touch not the unclean. Come out of her midst, be clean, you who bear the vessels of יהוה.
12For you shall not come out in haste, nor go in flight. For יהוה is going before you, and the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl is your rear guard.
13See, My Servant shall work wisely, He shall be exalted and lifted up and very high.
14As many were astonished at You – so the disfigurement beyond any man’s and His form beyond the sons of men –
15He shall likewise startle many nations. Sovereigns shut their mouths at Him, for what had not been recounted to them they shall see, and what they had not heard they shall understand.
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