Chapter 52
1 "Wake up, wake up; put on your strength, Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer enter you.
2 Stand up, shake the dust off yourself! Take your seat, Jerusalem. Remove the bonds from your neck, captive Daughter Zion."
3 For this is what the Lord says: "You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without silver."
4 For this is what the Lord God says: "At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
5 So 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.
6 Therefore my people will know my name; therefore they will know on that day that I am he who says, ‘Here I am.’ "
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald, who proclaims peace, who brings news of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns! "
8 The voices of your watchmen — they lift up their voices, shouting for joy together; for every eye will see when the Lord returns to Zion.
9 Be joyful, rejoice together, you ruins of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has displayed his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11 Leave, leave, go out from there! Do not touch anything unclean; go out from her, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord .
12 For you will not leave in a hurry, and you will not have to take flight; because the Lord is going before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
13 See, my servant , will be successful; he will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
14 Just as many were appalled at you — his appearance was so disfigured that he did not look like a man, and his form did not resemble a human being —
15 so he will sprinkle many nations. , 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.