Isaiah 52

The Lord

52 ¹Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion;
put on your glorious garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city,

for the uncircumcised
and the unclean will no longer come into you.

²Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit down, O Jerusalem;
loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah

³For thus says the LORD,

The Lord

“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without money.”

Isaiah

⁴For thus says the Lord,

The Lord

“At first My people went down to Egypt to live there, and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. ⁵And now, what have I here,”

Isaiah

declares the LORD,

The Lord

“that My people are taken away for nothing? They that rule over them make them to wail,”

Isaiah

declares the LORD,

The Lord

“and My name continually, all day, is despised.
⁶Therefore my people will know My name; [yea][1], in that day that [they will know that][2], it is I who speaks, ‘Here I am.’”

Isaiah

⁷[And then will they say][3],

God’s covenant people

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings [unto them],
who announces peace,
who brings good tidings [unto them] of good,
who announces salvation,
who says to Zion,

Herald

‘Your God reigns!’”

Isaiah

⁸Your watchmen will lift up their voice;
with the voice together will they sing gladly:
for they will see eye to eye, when the LORD returns to Zion.
⁹Break forth, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem:

for the LORD has comforted His people;
He has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰The LORD has made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

¹¹Depart,
depart;

go out from there; touch not that which is unclean.
Go out from her midst. Be clean, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.

¹²For you will not go out with haste,
nor will you go by flight;

for the LORD will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be Your rearguard.

The Lord

¹³Behold, My servant will act wisely;

He will be exalted
and lifted up
and be very high.

¹⁴So many were astonished at You—

so, His appearance was disfigured[4] more than any man,
and His form more than the children of a human.

¹⁵So will He [gather][5] many nations; the kings will shut their mouths because of Him:

for that which had not been told them, they will see;
and that which they have not heard, they will consider.