Chapter 52
1: Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised
and the unclean.
2: Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose
thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3: For thus saith the LORD,
Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4: For thus
saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed
them without cause.
5: Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is
taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually
every day is blasphemed.
6: Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7: How beautiful upon the
mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8: Thy
watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye,
when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9: Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste
places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10: The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the
earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11: Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,
touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12: For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and
the God of Israel will be your rereward.
13: Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he
shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14: As many were astonied at thee; his
visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15: So
shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told
them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
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