Isaiah 52
1Awake,
awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall
no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2Shake
thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves
for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4For
thus saith the Lord GOD, My 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 my name
continually every day is blasphemed.
6Therefore
my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with
the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD
hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10The
LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of
our God.
11Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out
from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before
you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13Behold,
my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men:
15So shall
he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see;
and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
