Isaiah 52–53

52^aAwake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;

Put on ^bthy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, ^cthe holy city:

For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and ^dthe unclean.

^2eShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:

^fLoose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

³For thus saith the Lord,

^gYe have sold yourselves ^hfor nought;

And ⁱye shall be redeemed without money.

⁴For thus saith the Lord God,

^kMy people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there;

And the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

⁵Now 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 ^lmy name continually every day is ^mblasphemed.

⁶Therefore my people shall know my name:

Therefore they shall know ⁿin that day ^othat I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

^7pHow beautiful ^qupon the mountains are ^rthe feet of him ^sthat bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace;

^sThat bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation;

That saith unto Zion, ^tThy God reigneth!

⁸Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice;

With the voice together shall they sing:

For ^uthey shall see eye to eye,

When the Lord shall bring again Zion.

^9vBreak forth into joy, sing together, ^wye waste places of Jerusalem:

^xFor the Lord hath comforted his people, ^yhe hath redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰The Lord hath made bare ^zhis holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;

^aAnd ^ball the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

^11cDepart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing;

Go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, ^dthat bear the vessels of the Lord.

¹²For ^eye shall not go out ^fwith haste,

Nor go by flight:

^gFor the Lord will go before you;

And ^gthe God of Israel will ^†be your rereward.

¹³Behold, ^hmy servant shall ^||deal prudently,

ⁱHe shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

¹⁴As many ^kwere astonied at thee;

^lHis visage was so marred more than any man,

And his form more than the sons of men:

¹⁵So ^mshall he sprinkle many nations;

ⁿThe kings shall shut their mouths at him:

For ^othat which had not been told them shall they see;

And that which they had not heard shall they consider.

53^aWho hath believed our ^||†report?

And to whom is ^bthe arm of the Lord revealed?

²For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,

And as ^ca root out of ^da dry ground:

^eHe hath no form nor comeliness;

And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

^3fHe is despised and ^grejected of men;

^hA man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:

And ^||†iwe hid as it were our faces from him;

He was despised, and ^kwe esteemed him not.

⁴Surely ^lhe hath borne our griefs,

And carried our sorrows:

Yet we did esteem him ^mstricken,

ⁿSmitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵But ^ohe was ^||pwounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities:

^qThe chastisement of ^qqour peace was upon him;

And ^rswith his ^†stripes we are healed.

^6rtAll we like sheep have gone astray;

^tWe have turned every one to his own way;

And ^uthe Lord ^†hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

^7wHe was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

Yet ^xhe opened not his mouth:

^yzHe is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,

So he openeth not his mouth.

^8y||He was taken from prison and from judgment:

And ^bwho shall declare his generation?

For ^che was cut off out of ^dthe land of the living:

For the transgression of my people ^†was he stricken.

⁹And he made his grave with the wicked,

And ^ewith the rich in his ^†death;

^fBecause ^ghe had done no violence,

Neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath ^hput him to grief:

^||iWhen thou shalt make his soul ^kan offering for sin,

^lHe shall see his seed, ^mhe shall prolong his days,

And ⁿthe pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹He shall see of the travail of his soul, and ^oshall be satisfied:

^pBy his knowledge shall ^qmy righteous ^rservant ^sjustify ^tmany;

^uFor he shall bear their iniquities.

^12vTherefore will I divide him a portion with the great,

And ^whe shall divide the spoil with the strong;

Because he hath ^xpoured out his soul unto death:

^yAnd he was numbered with the transgressors;

And he bare the sin of many,

And ^zmade intercession for the transgressors.