Isaiah 52–53

52“Wake up, wake up;

put on your strength, Zion!

Put on your beautiful garments,^m

Jerusalem, the holy city!ⁿ

For the uncircumcised and the unclean

will no longer enter you.^o

²Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!

Take your seat, Jerusalem.

Remove the bonds^A from your neck,

captive Daughter Zion.”

³For this is what the Lord says:

“You were sold for nothing,

and you will be redeemed without silver.”^p

⁴For this is what the Lord God says:

“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,^q

then Assyria oppressed them without cause.^B

⁵So now what have I here”—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

“that my people are taken away for nothing?

Its rulers wail”—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

“and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.^a

⁶Therefore my people will know my name;^b

therefore they will know on that day

that I am he who says,

‘Here I am.’ ”

⁷How beautiful on the mountains

are the feet of the herald,

who proclaims peace,

who brings news of good things,^c

who proclaims salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”^d

⁸The voices of your watchmen^e—

they lift up their voices,

shouting for joy together;

for every eye will see

when the Lord returns to Zion.

⁹Be joyful, rejoice together,

you ruins of Jerusalem!^f

For the Lord has comforted his people;^g

he has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰The Lord has displayed his holy arm

in the sight of all the nations;^h

all the ends of the earth will see

the salvation of our God.ⁱ

¹¹Leave, leave, go out from there!^j

Do not touch anything unclean;

go out from her, purify yourselves,^k

you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

¹²For you will not leave in a hurry,^l

and you will not have to take flight;

because the Lord is going before you,^m

and the God of Israel is your rear guard.ⁿ

THE SERVANT’S SUFFERING AND EXALTATION

¹³See, my servant^Ao will be successful;^B

he will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.^p

¹⁴Just as many were appalled at you^C—

his appearance was so disfigured

that he did not look like a man,

and his form did not resemble a human being—

¹⁵so he will sprinkle many nations.^Dq

Kings will shut their mouths because of him,

for they will see what had not been told them,

and they will understand what they had not heard.^r

53Who has believed what we have heard?^E

And to whom has the arm of the Lord^s been revealed?^t

²He grew up before him like a young plant^u

and like a root out of dry ground.

He didn’t have an impressive form

or majesty that we should look at him,

no appearance that we should desire him.^v

³He was despised and rejected by men,^w

a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.^x

He was like someone people turned away from;^F

he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

⁴Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,

and he carried our pains;^y

but we in turn regarded him stricken,

struck down by God,^z and afflicted.

⁵But he was pierced because of our rebellion,^aa

crushed because of our iniquities;^ab

punishment^ac for our peace was on him,

and we are healed by his wounds.^ad

⁶We all went astray like sheep;^ae

we all have turned to our own way;

and the Lord has punished him

for^G the iniquity^af of us all.^ag

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth.

Like a lamb led to the slaughter

and like a sheep silent before her shearers,

he did not open his mouth.^ah

⁸He was taken away because of oppression and judgment,

and who considered his fate?^A

For he was cut off from the land of the living;

he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.

⁹He was assigned a grave with the wicked,

but he was with a rich man at his death,^a

because he had done no violence

and had not spoken deceitfully.^b

¹⁰Yet the Lord was pleased^c to crush him severely.^Bd

When^C you make him a guilt offering,^e

he will see his seed, he will prolong his days,

and by his hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.^f

¹¹After his anguish, he will see light^D and be satisfied.

By his knowledge,

my righteous^g servant^h will justify many,ⁱ

and he will carry their iniquities.

¹²Therefore I will give him^E the many as a portion,

and he will receive^F the mighty as spoil,

because he willingly submitted to death,^j

and was counted among the rebels;^k

yet he bore the sin of many^l

and interceded for the rebels.^m