Yahweh Redeems Zion

52 Awake! Awake; put on your strength, Zion!

Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem, ⌊holy city⌋!a

For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall not ⌊continue to⌋b enter you any longer.

2 Shake yourself free from the dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem!

Free yourselves from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

3 For thus says Yahweh:

“You were sold for nothing,

and you shall be redeemed without money.”

4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“My people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him ⌊without cause⌋.c 5 And now what do I have here?” ⌊declares⌋d Yahweh, “for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl,” ⌊declares⌋e Yahweh—“and my name is reviled continually, all day. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. ⌊Here am I⌋.”f

7 How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,

who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns as a king.”

8 The voicesg of your watchmen! They lift up their voices;h

together they sing for joy;

for they ⌊clearly⌋i see Yahweh’s return to Zion.

9 Break forth,

sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem,

for Yahweh has comforted his people;

he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 Yahweh has bared ⌊his holy arm⌋j to the eyes of all the nations,

and all the endsk of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

11 Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing.

Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.

12 For you shall not go out in haste,

and you shall not go in flight,

for Yahweh is going before you,

and your rear guard is the God of Israel.

The Servant’s Suffering and Exaltation

13 Look, my servant shall achieve success;

he shall be exalted,

and he shall be lifted up,

and he shall be very high.

14 Just as many were appalled at you—

such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement,

and his form beyond the sons of mankind—

15 so he shall sprinkle many nations;

because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.l

For they shall see what has not been told them,

and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.

53 Who has believed our message,

and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

2 Fora he wentb up like a shoot before him,

and like a root from dry ground.

He had no form and no majesty thatc we should see him,

and no appearance thatd we should take pleasure in him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of suffering, and acquainted withe sickness,

and like ⌊one from whom others hide their faces⌋,f he was despised,

and we did not hold him in high regard.

4 However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses,

and he carried our pain,

yetg we ourselves assumed him stricken,

struck down by God and afflicted.

5 Buth he was piercedi for our transgressions,

crushed because of our iniquities;

the chastisement forj our peacek was upon him,

and by his woundsl ⌊we were healed⌋.m

6 All of us have wandered about like sheep;

we each have turned to his own way;

and Yahweh let fall on him

the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and afflicted,

yetn he did not open his mouth;

he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter,

and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers,

soo he did not open his mouth.

8 He was taken by restraint of justice,

and who concerned himself with his generation?

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

he received a blow because of the transgression of my people.

9 He madep his grave with the wicked,

and with the rich in his death,

although he had done no violence,

and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10 Yetq Yahweh was pleased to crush him;

he ⌊made him sick⌋.r

If hes placest his life a guilt offering,u

he will see offspring.

He will prolong days,

and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.

11 From the trouble of his lifev he will see;w

he will be satisfied.

In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous,x

and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many,y

and with the strong ones he will divide bounty,

⌊because⌋z he poured his life out to death

and was counted with the transgressors;

anda he was the one who bore the sin of many

and will intercede for the transgressors.