52
1 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.
2 Shake
yourself from the
dust!
Arise, sit up,
Jerusalem!
Release yourself
from the bonds
of your neck,
captive daughter
of Zion!
3 For
the LORD says, “You
were sold for
nothing;
and you will
be redeemed
without money.”
4 For
the Lord GOD
says:
“My people went
down at the
first into Egypt
to live there;
and the Assyrian
has oppressed them
without cause.
5 “Now
therefore, what do
I do here,”
says the LORD,
“seeing that my
people are taken
away for nothing?
Those who rule
over them mock,”
says the LORD,
“and my name
is blasphemed
continually all
day long.
6 Therefore
my people shall
know my name.
Therefore they
shall know in
that day that
I am he
who speaks.
Behold, it is
I.”
7 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,
“Your God reigns!”
8 Your
watchmen lift up
their voice.
Together they
sing;
for they shall
see eye to
eye when the
LORD returns to
Zion.
9 Break
out into joy!
Sing together,
you waste places
of Jerusalem;
for the LORD
has comforted his
people.
He has redeemed
Jerusalem.
10 The
LORD 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.
11 Depart!
Depart! Go out
from there! Touch
no unclean thing!
Go out from
among her!
Cleanse yourselves,
you who carry
the LORD’s vessels.
12 For
you shall not
go out in
haste,
neither shall you
go by flight;
for the LORD
will go before
you,
and the God
of Israel will
be your rear guard.
13 Behold,
my servant will
deal wisely.
He will be
exalted and lifted
up,
and will be
very high.
14 Just as
many were
astonished at you—
his appearance
was marred more
than any man, and
his form more
than the sons
of men—
15 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.