Isaiah 52
โ Isaiah 51 | Isaiah | Isaiah 53 โ
v1
Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
v2
Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
v3
For Yahweh says, โYou were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.โ
v4
For the Lord Yahweh says: โMy people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
v5
โNow therefore, what do I do here,โ says Yahweh, โseeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,โ says Yahweh, โand my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
v6
Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.โ
v7
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, โYour God reigns!โ
v8
Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.
v9
Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
v10
Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
v11
Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahwehโs vessels.
v12
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
v13
Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
v14
Just as many were astonished at youโ his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of menโ
v15
so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.