Isaiah 52

CHAPTER 52

Hope for Captive Zion

^1aAwake, awake,

Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;

Clothe yourself in your ^bglorious garments,

O Jerusalem, the ^choly city;

For the uncircumcised and the ^dunclean

Will no longer come into you.

²Shake yourself ^afrom the dust, ^brise up,

O captive Jerusalem;

^cLoose yourself from the chains around your neck,

O captive daughter of Zion.

³For thus says Yahweh, “You were ^asold for nothing, and you will be ^bredeemed ^cwithout money.”

⁴For thus says Lord Yahweh, “My people ^awent down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

⁵“So now, what do I have here,” declares Yahweh, “since My people have been taken away for nothing?” Yahweh declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My ^aname is continually blasphemed all day long.

⁶“Therefore My people shall ^aknow My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”

⁷How lovely on the mountains

Are the feet of him who proclaims ^agood news,

Who ¹announces ²peace

And proclaims good news of good things,

Who ³announces salvation,

And says to Zion, “Your ^bGod ⁴reigns!”

⁸The voice of Your watchmen! They lift up their ^avoices;

They shout joyfully together;

For they will see ¹with their own eyes

When Yahweh returns to Zion.

^9aBreak forth, shout joyfully together,

You ^bwaste places of Jerusalem;

For Yahweh has comforted His people;

He has ^credeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰Yahweh has bared His holy ^aarm

In the sight of all the nations,

¹That ^ball the ends of the earth may see

The salvation of our God.

^11aDepart, depart, go out from there,

^bTouch nothing unclean;

Go out of the midst of her, ^cpurify yourselves,

You who carry the vessels of Yahweh.

¹²But you will not go out in ^ahaste,

Nor will you go as those who flee;

For ^bYahweh will go before you,

And ^cthe God of Israel will be your rear guard.

The Exalted Servant

¹³Behold, My ^aServant will prosper;

He will be high and lifted up and ¹greatly ^bexalted.

¹⁴Just as many were appalled at you, My people,

So His ^aappearance was marred more than any man

And His form more than the sons of men.

¹⁵Thus He will ^asprinkle many nations,

Kings will ^bshut their mouths on account of Him;

For ^cwhat had not been told them they will see,

And what they had not heard they will understand.